I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

You can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We're not resting until we get that done.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.