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To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.

It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.

From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.