I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.
People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.
What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would be rounded up, taken to the airport and expelled.
He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
It isn't those of us who oppose American aggression in the Muslim world who need manipulative, exploitative reminders about 9/11; it's those who cheer for these policies who are making a follow-up attack ever more likely.
There are conservatives who say, 'Why would you show the country in a weak way?' And there are liberals who say I'm exploitative.
