When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.