I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.

You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don't think there's a right or a wrong; I think there's an "it works" or "it doesn't work" for the whole. And that's why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from marijuana intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.