I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.

America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.