I've always been a good ensemble player.
For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.
I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.
The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.
Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.
From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.
I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.
Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.
Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.
Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!
My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.
