 Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. |
| I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do. |
| Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks. |
| I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to. |
| I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me. |
| I think it's good to meet smart people and talk. |
| Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character. |
| It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world. |
| I'm a 9/11 Republican. |
| I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people. |
| Nobody has a franchise on what is good. |
| I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that. |
| If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive. |
| I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up. |
| But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see. |
| Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill. |
| Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it. |
| I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit. |
| I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means. |
| Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person. |
