I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first.

I like intellectual journeys.

Despite the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in our presidential election, President Donald Trump and Republican leadership seem wholly uninterested in examining how and why Russia targeted us - and what we must do to prevent it from happening again.

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.

Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.

It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

The riffs, lyrics, and drums of 'Open Your Omen' will tell you a lot.

If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Following sporadic reports of intelligence officials misleading Congress about surveilling U.S. citizens - even spying on journalists and political figures and their staffs - there was a series of red flags in 2016 and 2017 that should have drawn attention and action.

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.