If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.