You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.