Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

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.

I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

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.