“Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.”

“If you have the biggest platform on earth, you can't just have irresponsible conversations.”

“I think you could do it today. There would be so much outrage, but there would also be people cheering. (on Tropic Thunder)”

“She’s on a whole other stratosphere. She’s the best at what she does …It’s because she’s so articulate and just very dialed into every single thing that she does.”

“We have to be able to do characters without worrying about the blowback. (on Tropic Thunder performance)”

“When I’d finish a take, and I’d say ‘cut,’ … I would always just hear someone like cheering from across the studio … and that one person was my boyfriend, Travis.”

“She is a world-class liar. Just look at her pathetic e-mail server statements.”

“Some conspiracy theories are true, but that doesn't vindicate those who spread them irresponsibly.”

“We decided to utilize the space we would occupy by getting married with a commercial for peace. We were promoting peace like you promote any product.”

“If you look at what he went through the last eight years, there's no way you believe that they weren't coming after him.”

“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.”

“Old is always fifteen years from now.”

“Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end”

“He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.”

“We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.”