In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I'm over getting torn up about that.

I can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

I tried being a stay-at-home mom for eight weeks. I like the stay-at-home part. Not too crazy about the mom aspect.

I believe I can be a franchise centerman, a No. 1 centerman in the NHL. That's my ultimate goal.

Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

Legg Mason's structure is misunderstood by the market. Legg Mason has an affiliate model. They own 100% of their affiliates, which are investment managers such as Permal, Western Asset Management, and...

I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

I think it is very important to learn to say 'No.' I think it is sometimes important for brands or the creative director to learn to say, 'This might be on trend, but it is not right for us.'

When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would...

I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly...

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.

Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see...

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.

'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt...

Be aware of what you cook tomatoes with. The high acid content of the tomato slows down the cooking process of some other foods. Dried beans cooked with tomatoes added to the pot can take up to 20...