Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that run. As long as you've got those workout clothes, you've got them on, you've got to go.

For me, the amazing thing was entering into this amazing world of 'Sesame Street.' We'd be in the kids' room, and there was a door into the soundstage that said '1-2-3 Open Sesame.' I remember pushing that door open and going into this incredible magical world of make-believe. In one episode, I was playing football with Joe Namath.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.