My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?