"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening"

"Music is my religion"

"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed"

"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat"

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

"They'll take everything, even your tears"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"