I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.