If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.