Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I think, often, people who do something new creatively don't benefit financially from it - it's the people who come after and make them palatable that make money.

You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.