People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.
With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.
I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.
There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle.
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf. " I say, "You're not tone-deaf, because if you were tone-deaf you would speak like that. But you're 'Oh, I'm tone-deaf. ' You already sang a song to me. "