I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

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.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

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.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

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.