Every accepted public quote

“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”

“It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on...”

“My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.”

“I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much.”

“In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural...”

“The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also t...”

“There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'”

“Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?”

“I'm not smart enough to play 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Maybe if someone were to take me by the hand and slowly and carefully walk me through.”

“The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molec...”

“You cannot rise higher than wisdom, nor can you go deeper than love.”

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within...”

“Manny Pacquiao has a whole country behind him. His journey and his rise, from a career standpoint, he was fortunate to have a lot of great opponents and rivalries for years. People forget ab...”

“My advice for parents is to support your children, make sure they are having fun. Support them and be there for them. Give them encouragement and make it a life lesson that along the way the...”

“The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.”

“The particular human chain we're a part of is central to our individual identity.”

“Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with yo...”

“If anyone has ever experienced an idle mind they should have no fear of death for they are one in the same.”

“It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on so...”

“I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”

“You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.”

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”

“I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like...”

“The only person who knows what's in my wallet is my wife.”

“A Stranger There is a love I reminisce, Like a seed I've never sown. Or lips that im yet to kiss, and eyes not met my own. Hands that wrap around my wrists, and arms that feel like home. I w...”

“Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in thei...”

“We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does larg...”

“Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bul...”

“In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summ...”

“To err is human, to purr feline.”

“Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.”

“I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm us...”

“You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think 'Well gee, let's not mess this up.' But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really l...”

“When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's...”

“Success and suffering are two sides of the same coin.”

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

“if the important thing is not to win but to complete then was not punctual invented.”

“I've always been ambitious. I've always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.”

“Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's...”

“I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.”

“I would never go on an intimate date with Charlie Sheen. He is really not my type at all.”

“Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.”

“I love story songs because I've always loved books.”

“Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, ou...”

“When there's too many teams that are not trying to win, that poisons the game, poisons the fan experience, and it creates bandwagon fans.”

“We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool.”

“I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.”