Every accepted public quote

“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.”

“If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.”

“The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'”

“Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to in...”

“It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.”

“Learning how to be at peace with oneself and others. That would be a real education.”

“In reality, handing over public space to private developers does not guarantee that new library spaces will be comparable in size or otherwise remain fully-functional.”

“We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little orga...”

“Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come wi...”

“My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was d...”

“The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market sol...”

“I always tend to tilt dark on an ending, because I feel like, especially with horror movies, those are the endings that don't evaporate. Those are the ones that stick with you.”

“I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.”

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”

“When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.”

“I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.”

“Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How...”

“There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.”

“Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.”

“I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.”

“Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if yo...”

“France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of th...”

“The American media wants to pump you full of fear.”

“A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.”

“I was always a character actress.”

“Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.”

“I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar i...”

“If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.”

“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

“I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.”

“An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.”

“Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacr...”

“There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.”

“Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.”

“Every health threat has a different nature and characteristic and appropriate response. Zika is a particular risk to pregnant women who reside in or thinking of traveling to places where Zik...”

“Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.”

“I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.”

“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”

“My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.”

“Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was...”

“Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.”

“I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.”

“People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphone...”

“There are many people who think we should have zero tax on capital gains, interest and dividends for everybody, as - the very, very wealthy. But recognize that means that Bill Gates and Warr...”

“Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbro...”

“One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.”

“I had this funny family. At one end, they were breeding dogs in south-east London - for greyhound racing - and at the other, my uncle was living in Downing Street. And I would actually go to...”

“Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.”