It's funny though with films because you can incorporate a variety of elements and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they um get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government liberty is done freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.