I outlived the bastards..

Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many t….

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know..

As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not ….

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation..

Discover what you are..

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor..

I didn't not perform..

Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment..

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..

When it comes to my daughter, I'm a conservative. But when it comes to your daughter, I'm a liberal!.

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

We are being programmed by mental pygmies..

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues..

Where I came from, no one was a writer..