But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

I'm a 9/11 Republican.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity