You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.