Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily spooked or driven to cynicism - the country is diverse but, paradoxically, extremely insular.
The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that.
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
The Academy is paranoid about its image.
'Tallica Parking Lot' is, basically, roughly about a four-minute animated short which is centered around the parking lot of Metallica, and that can be anywhere in the world.
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I'm not on any particular kind of clock.
I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with the exception of, as is the case with the Patriots and the quarterback, you have a roster turnover.
Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
Comedy is all about the pause.
I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.
I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
When I began my practice, I said I'm going to be a pediatrician that really thinks about and understands a child's educational trajectory.
Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.
It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.
