Every accepted public quote

“Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.”

“I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.”

“As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.”

“I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.”

“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”

“A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.”

“It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupatio...”

“I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.”

“And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.”

“Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.”

“If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world w...”

“Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'”

“I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.”

“I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all th...”

“I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs...”

“Trust, but verify.”

“There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.”

“The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.”

“I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the ki...”

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”

“My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.”

“Blake & Murphy didn't seem to appreciate who I was and what I was doing for them. After losing the NXT Tag Team Championship, they went on a long losing streak. They needed me yet just used...”

“I don't see coming down to London and talking to people and making TV shows as real work. The only reason I do it is because they keep coming up with decent ideas.”

“I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.”

“I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to...”

“I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.”

“In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.”

“The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a cha...”

“You have to take a leap of faith before exposing yourself completely in terms of feelings and desires - especially if you're a woman.”

“dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.”

“You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.”

“I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.”

“I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.”

“I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.”

“South Wales is a hub of aviation.”

“President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.”

“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner o...”

“It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.”

“My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the bac...”

“As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.”

“In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.”

“I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.”

“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?”

“As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from...”

“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”

“A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.”

“For my prom, I wore a white suit with a burgundy shirt, tie and cummerbund, along with white shoes, a white trilby and a cane. I was extra fly that day.”