“The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can – they want the popular vote.”

There’s a point you get to on the stage where you’re not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Listen! We’re not just doing this for the money! We’re doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn’t want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Rural towns aren’t always idyllic. It’s easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.

Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.

Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.

I would strongly urge the Donald Trump administration to pick someone who is completely apolitical, who doesn’t come out of the political process

If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria – then this will open the door for the beginning of the political transition process.