Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.