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If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

Steve hadn't been to acting school. He had no preconceived notions. His background was exactly what you see on television; he's done that all his life. We thought we'd do one show. What happened was, it did really well, so we did a part two. And from then on, we found that Steve's natural behavior in the wild happens to be fascinating!

It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!

Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

That's what I love - on 'The Farewell,' we played with a lot of silence and a lot of negative space, and I really worked with the composer to create those juxtapositions of like, those awkward silences and when something comes in.

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.