Happy Birthday Ricky Gervais!

I wish I had a pound for every time I offended someone. Wait, I do.

It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?" I could tell you I've got superpowers. But I can't go up to people saying "Prove I can't fly." They'd go: "What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly'? Prove you can!"

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

You could easily spot any Religion of Peace. Its extremist members would be extremely peaceful.

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.

Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

You are the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist again. Absolutely beautiful.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.”

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice.

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.

Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside.

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.

As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a God. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.

Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

I've never regretted turning money down. I don't do anything for the money. It bores me.

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

We Shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary Gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

Had an idea for celebrity big brother.Leave them in there for months and when they come out let them know it wasn't televised.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Whether you believe that life evolved over billions of years or God made everything, you can't justify torturing an animal for a shampoo.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

I pay full tax and I love it. I wouldn't be where I am today without free education & the NHS.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

Being an Atheist, do you say bless you when somebody sneezes? No. I say 'cover your mouth you dirty cunt'.

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.

The only route to success is hard work. If you didn't work hard I don't think it counts as success.

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

It seems to be true, particularly in middle America, that those most militant about using up fossil fuels, don't actually believe in fossils.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Everyone has the right to believe in anything they want. And everyone else has the right to find it fucking ridiculous.

Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse.

Force your children to read The Bible. If they are smart and kind it will put them off religion for life.

You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Famous people are above the law.

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.’ You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

We have to stop this recent culture of people telling us they're offended and expecting us to give a fuck.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.

Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer.

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.
The same applies when you are stupid.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How fucking good is that? He's brilliant.

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . . . by cosmetic surgeons.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.

Happy Birthday George Orwell!

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Happy Birthday Meryl Streep!

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

I'm all over the place.

I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money. 

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot. 

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it. 

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. 

You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor. 

I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.

People will say to me, 'You've played so many strong women' and I'll say, 'Have you ever said to a man, 'You've played so many strong men?' No! Because the expectation is men are varied. Why can't we have that expectation about women?

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word. 

I can't stand most things that I see.

I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize that each day is a gift.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you're low. We need each other in that way.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

The work will stand, no matter what.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

Fear focuses the mind.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

Happy Birthday René Auberjonois!

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

My wife, Judith, is the best person in the world.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

I'm never going to retire. I'll die with my boots on.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I do the conventions now for two reasons. To raise money for Doctors Without Borders and travel.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

The best part is the part I'm working at the moment.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

So, yes, the five years that we’ve been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

I'm never going to retire.

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn’t a chance to go deeply into the characters.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

I would not recommend anybody holding their breath, ... Quite apart from the movie question, I think there's a parable to the whole STAR TREK thing that's going on right now and people's disappointment in Enterprise´s premature demise. When you have a field, and you plant the same thing in the field year after year after year, there's a certain point where the crop just begins to weaken. You have to let a field go fallow for a while. And I think that's what we're seeing right now ... It's not the end of STAR TREK, but I think there will be a period now in which it lies fallow. And then hopefully, because of people like you who keep the dream alive, it will come back. And hopefully it will be strong and vital.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

This is an ear. An ear on a tv screen. Why do I find it so interesting? This a rhetorical question.

Ice cream and hiding in bushes may be little things - obstruction of justice and compromising security - not so little

Oval Office Fumigated After Complaints Of Overwhelming Smell Of Bullshit 

It's been a long day's drive I should be sleeping like a log 

LOOK AT THIS FACE. TALKING TO THE RUSSIANS.THIS MAN IS UNWELL.

If tRUMP's presidency is a reality show - what will finally bring him down may be that the audience grows tired of all the "drama"

I usually avoid putting my tea bags in my tea... otherwise - we're on the same page

well if the sun hits his head at the right angle it makes me squint

I though I heard my phone ringing. I could remember where it was. Then I realized I was holding and tweeting. I'll be ok

I do read your tweets

Vive la France! The road is long and complex, but, for now, the forces of darkness have been pushed back... for now

Now is the time to vigilant - the BULLy has been gored.

WTF??? I think I'm famous? Chloe "News" 

Is everyone else as riveted by the current unraveling of events as I am?sucked into tRUMP's nightmare reality show.

A great of fresh air... no tRUMP in sight!