Quotes
"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen ... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth."
"It's really sad though, because I think about like... (laughs) my kids, you know, my grandfather cleared land and raised cattle and... daddy tints his hair"
"One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential."
"I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life"
"You know, you sometimes feel like you're on the receiving end of the suffering Olympics. You didn't ask for this, you didn't expect this when celebrity hit you. I try to help them get over their self-consciousness about it. It's ... the media that sometimes makes people in Hollywood wary. We've got a bad reputation for activism."
"Being on the show, you get this bizarre political credibility, which is embarrassing and unearned, because we're just actors doing a show."
"You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction. "
"With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in. And so I do."
"Love means never having to say you're a zero."
"When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are."
"You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in."