"There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content."

"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."

"I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views."

"I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned."

"Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt."

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"