It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

I don't like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it's using the muscle that you use in loving, in that your heart feels open. Physically, you feel open. And so therefore your job is to enter, open, and listen. And see what happens.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

Children reinvent your world for you.