Every accepted public quote

“I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.”

“A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a direct...”

“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.”

“When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.”

“I was excited about opening for Vanilla Fudge because I was a big fan of theirs.”

“Fresh out of grad school, I arrived for my first day of work at Deloitte ready for the long haul. For my generation, that's what those early years were about - laying the foundation for a li...”

“A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”

“Being able to wear contacts, you don't have to worry about your glasses falling off or how you look during your beam routine. As soon as they're in, literally two minutes later, you forget t...”

“I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps...”

“When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.”

“I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.”

“Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching m...”

“If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.”

“Writing is a lonely business.”

“I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.”

“Growing up, I was like any Aussie kid - you know we love our sport - that was my favourite subject at school. That is a subject, right?”

“Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.”

“With cyberbullying, one press of a finger on an electronic device can shatter someone's reputation and what they think is their entire life. It's scary.”

“Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their emp...”

“The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.”

“Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.”

“I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's...”

“Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.”

“Make your mirror Proud.”

“Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgag...”

“Talk is cheap. Actions speak.”

“We all want to be affiliated with success. It's the impulse of people who have been excluded, and Koreans have been excluded from lots of parties.”

“Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.”

“You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.”

“(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)”

“I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.”

“Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards....”

“Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.”

“It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.”

“I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.”

“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for k...”

“Since the day I met you I knew I wanted a lifetime of first with you; Our first date, our first kiss, our first dance. January 2018”

“M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.”

“Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.”

“As long as you feel good in something, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to own it. You'll never regret wearing something you really love.”

“Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, t...”

“The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.”

“I realise that I have made quite a few of the same mistakes with my kids that my dad made: not so much in trying to determine their lives for them but in terms of trying to discipline them.”

“Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the other...”

“The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.”

“Fraily, thy name is woman!”

“I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.”

“I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn't like that connotation, the violence and all that. The more I thought about it, I thought they...”