By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

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

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.