Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
Money is a way of creating scarcity.
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.
I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
