Quotes from Tony Goldwyn

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

Honestly, people are pretty chill and respectful on Twitter.

My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.

It takes courage to acknowledge uncertainty. And nothing is more attractive than demonstrating to another person that he or she is of value to you.

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

We need a president with experience and the wisdom and the grit to stand up to bullies who tell women that they should be punished for making their own decisions.

I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother's best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'