All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are. . . bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.
What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.
we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments
The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.
It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.
In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.