My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

I think every actor wants to play those big parts. In the very first play I ever did, I remember understanding all the characters in it. I always felt I could play anyone.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.

I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.

By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no relation to physics. And that was mostly because experiments to prove it were so hard to do - all these effects that Einstein's theory had predicted were infinitesimally small.

Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.