Tony Goldwyn
My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.Collection: Communication
We need a president with experience and the wisdom and the grit to stand up to bullies who tell women that they should be punished for making their own decisions.Collection: Wisdom
I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
It takes courage to acknowledge uncertainty. And nothing is more attractive than demonstrating to another person that he or she is of value to you.
A 'guys' night out' for me is... being with my wife! Since I'm at work a lot, I want to be with her when I'm home.
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
I have to say one of the most gratifying things about being in this industry for a long time is you do develop a genuine sense of community with the people you know and collaborate with.
If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.
I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.
My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.
I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.
Life is a very emotional experience.
Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.
#GivingTuesday is the perfect cyber-counterbalance to Black Friday and emphasizes giving back in this era of mass consumption.
Every day should be #GivingTuesday when it comes to surviving natural catastrophes and man-made disasters.
Honestly, people are pretty chill and respectful on Twitter.
In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.
Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.
We're raised to believe that asking for help - that not having all the answers - is a sign of weakness, somehow challenging our manhood.
Our age-old faith in divine male intuition is no longer good enough. Reality check, fellas: We are not gods. We are men. Let's own it.
I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'
I don't do anything artificial. I don't do Botox or surgery.
When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother's best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.
I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'
I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.
It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.
I loved working with Ed Zwick.
The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.
I'm a feminist, and I am a man for choice.
Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.
We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.
I love yoga breathing exercises; they're very helpful.
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.Collection: Character
If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that levelCollection: Levels
Nothings wrong with honest emotion.Collection: Emotion
My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.Collection: Daughter
I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...Collection: Character
If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.Collection: Weed
The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other up. As a creator, a director and a filmmaker, you often get assaulted and you lose perspective because you have all of this pressure. It was so nice to call him and say, "What do you think?"Collection: Nice
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happenCollection: Decisions You Make
I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.Collection: People
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in DetroitCollection: Names
I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.Collection: Thinking