Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It’s the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.
It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world’s most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.
A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.
It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.
Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.
My dad sent me a text saying, ‘You know who you should play? Columbo. That’s your Academy Award.’
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I’ve always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.
My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.
When people sit across from people – gay, straight, whatever – and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren’t the demons we’ve expected them to be.
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
Also, stick around. Don’t lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.
Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody’s going to buy their way out of its effects.
Do theater. Because you’ll develop a craft that you’ll always have. It’ll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won’t go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
Certainly, it’s very easy to fall in love with cash. If you’re going to make all your decisions based on cash, you’re going to have a pretty naffy career.
My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.
Love conquers all – love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.
I’ve just been more interested in doing film right now and I don’t want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.