I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. Use this quote
My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home. Use this quote
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. Use this quote
In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things. Use this quote
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. Use this quote
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. Use this quote
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas. Use this quote
I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment. Use this quote
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. Use this quote
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. Use this quote
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me. Use this quote
Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary. Use this quote
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies. Use this quote
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel. Use this quote
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. Use this quote
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government. Use this quote
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Use this quote
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Use this quote
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. Use this quote
My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can. Use this quote
