I Love My Country Enough To Suffer

I Don't Have Any Conscious Memory Of Wanting To Be An Actor, But Early On, There Was Something In My Makeup That I Felt Comfortable With. Then When I Was Around Five Or Six, I Started Going To The Movies And Gradually It Dawned On Me That I Was Like One Of Those People On The Screen. And That Was It. There Was Never Any Question Or Doubt About What I Was Going To Do For A Living.

My First Civil Disobedience Arrest For Social Justice Was In 1986 For Protesting The Sdi.

Nothing Ever Gets Done Unless It's Done By A Fanatic.

I Love The West Wing For Many Reasons. The Show Has Been A Fantasy. But We Have Offered A Parallel Universe To Reality.

We Think Of Violence As Being Conflict And Fighting And Wars And So Forth, But The Most Ongoing Horrific Measure Of Violence Is In The Horrible Poverty Of The Third World... And The Poverty In The United States As Well. We Have Our Own Third World Here. And We Have To First Become Aware Of That And How To Help And Solve That.