Every accepted public quote

“I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up...”

“Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.”

“I'm down for anything. I'll try anything once. I'm a party girl that way!”

“The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.”

“Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.”

“Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.”

“I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.”

“I started voice lessons when I was eight years old.”

“I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving...”

“The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found...”

“We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.”

“People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evo...”

“You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.”

“Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.”

“We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.”

“It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated, budding linguist who really inspired us. Som...”

“When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.”

“The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.”

“We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our...”

“There is so much more out there, beyond our sight and knowledge that will never be seen through any window frame.”

“Reading refreshes as well as renews the mind.”

“I would have always liked to have worked with Randy Orton because of the Diamond Cutter and the RKO.”

“It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess...”

“The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.”

“When you tell them you're a writer, they say, 'What have you written?' And then you've got to tell them what you've done. I don't ask a plumber what he does. Then I have to explain what I've...”

“Euthanasia is against my religion so I decided to murder her.”

“This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people wh...”

“I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.”

“In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working...”

“The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.”

“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't...”

“If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.”

“Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.”

“I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a...”

“These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring...”

“The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.”

“A few years ago, I realized I was decorating and designing my house around what was beautiful rather than practical for my family. When I made that realization, everything kind of clicked fo...”

“Don't think that just because you made it to the next level that the haters and naysayers disappear. Remember, new levels bring new devils.”

“Pervasive 'whites-only' policies and hateful narratives could not be further from the values that underpin our Armed Forces: those of integrity, respect for others, and having the bravery to...”

“Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationsh...”

“And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.”

“I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.”

“You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me pre...”

“I want to remind you of one thing, which is, when I look around the world and look at the long-term economic fundamentals we have in this country, I think they compare favorably with what I...”

“I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.”

“I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.”

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

“I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Impo...”