Every accepted public quote

“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”

“I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my childre...”

“I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.”

“The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”

“Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.”

“Discovery Channel's 'Planet Healers' will provide a look into how businesses can exist for more than just making profits, how they can help create a better and sustainable future.”

“Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.”

“It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I hav...”

“Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment...”

“The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they're looking at may not be the most important things. I'm guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news...”

“I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.”

“Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.”

“In theory, and I think in practice, I am immune to the strain of Ebola that I was infected with. But there are five different strains of Ebola.”

“I always try and put out posts on social media about feeling good inside, and there's so much pressure for people to look a certain way and have a certain hairstyle or a certain lipstick.”

“Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.”

“I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your Tw...”

“What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks...”

“As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's...”

“When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to...”

“Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.”

“You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering...”

“I'm not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior - I mean, that's part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don't have anything to hide, and I'm not concerned with what...”

“Only fools talk about wisdom, the wise knows to keep silent and let their action do the talking.”

“I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.”

“God is as real as a station wagon.”

“Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro i...”

“Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.”

“I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.”

“That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”

“Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.”

“To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.”

“Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.”

“I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.”

“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot....”

“I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.”

“Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.”

“There is a certain panic, at least if you're raised Mormon, to being single at 31. But what they don't tell you is that it can also be kinda great.”

“Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew...”

“Happiness is knowing what you want and acting on it.”

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”

“As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one.”

“I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an...”

“I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.”

“Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour.”

“I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.”

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”

“Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of the confusing histories we, as artists, deal wit...”

“'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since.”