"There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us."

"There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work."

"The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow."

"I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader."

"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."

"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

"I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from."

"From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America."