Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.
Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.
I had been used to improvising and even in the audition I was feeling free to rearrange Aaron Sorkin words a little bit, as lovely as they were. I didn't find out until after I got the part how furious Aaron was at me for doing that. They said, "He was livid. He did everything in his power not to jump down your throat!" But I came to realise that Aaron was writing in metre and the rhythm of the language is very important.
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall!. . . I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.