Every accepted public quote

“Kindness indicates the act is done with love.”

“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”

“When someone else's happiness becomes the prerequisite of your happiness, you know that you are in love.”

“If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwie...”

“I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction,...”

“I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.”

“As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.”

“We have more franchisees that want to pay us money than we have locations to go into.”

“Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief e...”

“I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn't even know how much it cost - I thought i...”

“Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.”

“Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone...”

“I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.”

“There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.”

“Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side,...”

“Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.”

“I'm working alongside the White House and other members in the House to lessen the tax burden that currently weighs on so many Oklahomans.”

“Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.”

“Lily, the next time you tell me you don't know what to do with family. Because you know exactly. It's about loyalty and kindness and unconditional love, and you are more than capable of all...”

“Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to...”

“I'm a health nut who likes to work out every day, but I am powerless when it comes to Yorkshire pudding, pizza and ice cream.”

“To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.”

“I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this...”

“I like to keep some privacy, be a normal person.”

“Along with 'Wet Hot American Summer' and 'The Room,' 'Lebowski' belongs in the canon of nouveau cult classics.”

“The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is i...”

“When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proporti...”

“I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was sti...”

“I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.”

“It's easy to think of a role-playing game as an amalgamation of two main components, narrative and gameplay, jammed together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes, they fit together nice...”

“I hope that my work ethic has been a model for those who do not believe in themselves or have lingering doubts about their own abilities.”

“Many mainstream winemakers use indigenous yeasts rather than commercially grown ones to ferment their grapes - precisely what natural winemakers advocate.”

“Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.”

“YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.”

“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”

“I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.”

“I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.”

“In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.”

“To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.”

“Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.”

“The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is,...”

“The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the...”

“I always believed in my ability. I just had to work hard and be patient and, yeah, at times it didn't look likely. You need a wee stroke of luck but every chance I've been given, I've taken.”

“More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is th...”

“I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.”

“Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.”

“The Internet had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way that was significantly cheaper than the prior methods.”

“I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.”