Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

I did 'Rock of Ages' when it was in both L.A. and Vegas, playing the lead, Drew.

I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

I had seen the photographs of Harlem in its glory days, stylish men in bespoke suits, women so well dressed that they'd put the models in 'Vogue' to shame. I knew that Harlemites loved to dance, to pray, and to eat.

I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.

I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.