Every accepted public quote

“Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.”

“I am convinced it is a mistake to find an artist human outside his work. If you cannot find him human in and through his work, you are better not to know it when you come to formulate an opi...”

“I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.”

“Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.”

“I've spoken several times with Prime Minister Erdogan about relations between Turkey and Israel. I'm pleased that, following President Obama's visit to Israel, talks between Israel and Turke...”

“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country a...”

“I decided sitcoms weren't for me.”

“When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record wo...”

“I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by...”

“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my...”

“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”

“People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'”

“Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.”

“We need to build roads, bridges, airports, locks, dams, and rail that work for this century - not the last one. And let's not forget about updating our energy grid, repairing and replacing o...”

“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”

“I was the guy from the Jersey Shore, Springsteen country. We don't do yoga there. And we made fun of anybody who did.”

“Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a...”

“When I'm in really good shape, I like my butt. It's juicy - that's what my fiance says.”

“Words are, like wines.”

“Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have. Improving your social network is a great example of...”

“My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. S...”

“to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits...”

“Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.”

“When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well.”

“Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those ar...”

“When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.”

“This is just a long shot, but I definitely would want to work with Frank Ocean. He's the man.”

“An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.”

“I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.”

“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”

“Why aren't you happy just to be alive?”

“Scripts specify 'minority' when it doesn't seem necessary. Given this is a traditionally liberal and progressive industry, it's surprisingly backwards.”

“The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.”

“In a democratic country like India, eulogising Rahul Gandhi with the title of Yuvraj is an insult to democracy.”

“I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.”

“When I first started modeling, I had the chance to walk the runway with Naomi passing by me, but I didn't know anything about supermodels. But when I saw her backstage, she complimented me o...”

“Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.”

“I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.”

“The best and worst of writing is that it could always be better.”

“Stop worrying about your competition; focus on increasing your value proposition.”

“I think time in itself is consciousness.”

“The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”

“For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.”

“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are...”

“The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.”

“I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the f...”

“After 25 quarters of so-called recovery under Obama, it has increased a total of only 14.3 percent. Compare this to earlier periods. After the JFK tax cuts of the early 1960s, the economy gr...”

“Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.”