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I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both large and small.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

That makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country, that they'd say no.

I auditioned for the part of Cosette in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway. It didn't work out.

In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

A fundamental principle that I learned in my career, and a principle that my consulting company McChrystal Group helps American civilian companies to adopt, is that winning units and organizations ensure that the time they actually spend - daily, weekly, and yearly - must hew closely to their priorities.

I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Big money has hijacked our politics.

'Daredevil''s a great show; I feel like 'Jessica Jones' is a great show, and I feel like they really are tapping into something.

Things you say no to, and the things you say no to knowing define each moment.

A splash of red wine vinegar can pull things together like a pinch of salt.

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

Moving forward, the most successful people in the entertainment industry will be 50 percent social and 50 percent traditional, so working with Disney and being super traditional, it brought a whole different audience to me.

But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.