I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.
If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains.
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
I'm a 9/11 Republican.
I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.
For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.
Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.
But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.
But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?
I do believe all actors are smart.
