I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

In helping others we shall help ourselves for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.

What state do you live in Denial.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.