Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'