Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and at the same time create a new need to change the world again.

Every time I hear Cut. Print something cold and electrical goes off in my head because I'm never going to change that film.

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

As a standup I try to change the world. As an entertainer I try to entertain. And as a lesbian I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991 I was confident that women would play an ever more important role but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition perhaps there is more flexibility more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.