I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.Collection: Relationship
It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Intelligence
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.
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.
I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.
I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
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.
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
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.
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.
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will changeCollection: Thinking
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown beforeCollection: Respect
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrityCollection: Use
I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow upCollection: Growing Up
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the eliteCollection: Art
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 attractiveCollection: Thinking
I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about meCollection: Spirit
I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bitCollection: Education
It's not like I'm the most famous person in the worldCollection: World
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 attacksCollection: Peace
If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal painsCollection: Pain