When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.
I can't always pick and choose, but I try very hard to take the roles where they are a bit more human. Sometimes there's a hilarious thing that comes along and it might not be the most interesting character, but I'm just delighted to be able to do something.
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.
A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Some people who make music are instantly very savvy about how they can get their music to communicate in a larger way. For me, the music was always first, and I put a lot of time and effort and thought into making the recordings. But everything else around it, all the things that were necessary to have a career in pop music, I was completely ill equipped to handle.