Every accepted public quote

“I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.”

“When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.”

“At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was...”

“My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn't know existed.”

“In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.”

“My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other life...”

“I am very loyal to the women I am fully licensed to.”

“Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had...”

“It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There...”

“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of th...”

“Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification ge...”

“I've done a good job of not putting myself in a box, being able to transform, and not being scared to try new things.”

“There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.”

“It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.”

“At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to...”

“In our relationship, we have very well-defined roles: I am the Vice President of Logistics; he's the CEO of Emotional Support.”

“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”

“I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a...”

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”

“Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same pri...”

“Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.”

“Don't hang on to the past and don't look on to the future, focus on your present and present will build your future, cover your past and make your present worth a while”

“Good movies beget other good movies. So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it's going to have a positive influence on similar genres getting made.”

“Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, w...”

“The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.”

“If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.”

“Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.”

“I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.”

“I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess...”

“Whenever I do something, particularly if it's a cameo, I make sure that I have a backstory written out so that I can talk to the director intelligent and try to communicate a three-dimension...”

“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

“Thailand stands at a crossroads.”

“'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really...”

“I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.”

“My natural self is John Goodman. If I relaxed, I'd be him.”

“Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come.”

“No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.”

“In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, b...”

“Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do...”

“The offender never pardons.”

“Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery wor...”

“Hard work, careful planning, and realistic financial advice will be required by many to regain solvency.”

“One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women.”

“In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved.”

“I had a great career in Australia, so it was a hard decision to move to America. But in 2010, I was asked to audition for the part Melissa McCarthy ended up playing in 'Bridesmaids.'”

“I'm pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.”

“The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.”

“Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health a...”