Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.

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

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.