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I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Love is pretty much always confusing, and it doesn't ever show up at a convenient time.

Life has 'if' in it for a reason so make it count.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

Love is not special, lovers are!

Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

I've been atheist since I became aware of the term, but my material is not all about religion - not by a long shot - and when I do address the topic, it is to point out where religiosity meets discrimination.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I loved 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.

Directors approach me for doing 'strong' women characters which, as an actor, increases a sense of responsibility to give my 100 per cent and even more for the faith they entrust on me.