Every accepted public quote

“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and basen...”

“I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about t...”

“There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.”

“I would love for there to be a 'Voodoo Dreams' movie, especially after seeing the glorious 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' I so admired how the filmmakers captured Louisiana and the magical a...”

“My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a...”

“He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.”

“The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of...”

“There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.”

“The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.”

“I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes...”

“The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.”

“We are not our own light.”

“We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.”

“Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.”

“I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.”

“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”

“It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.”

“It's not really cool to be singled out.”

“There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.”

“I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the g...”

“How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less...”

“As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And if you don't do that, you're going to fail; you're neve...”

“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”

“I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.”

“We're pretty sure Liz fell pregnant on our wedding night.”

“The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by t...”

“Anything that's shiny, you can mix together. I love rhinestones with sequins, or baubles with fun gold metallics.”

“I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.”

“When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.”

“Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.”

“Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to...”

“I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.”

“I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God ga...”

“To be very frank, I never got very good offers from Hindi cinema until 'Eega.' Now, I'm flooded with offers.”

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”

“I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.”

“The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present;...”

“Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.”

“In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.”

“Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.”

“I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.”

“Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going...”

“Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wan...”

“During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education m...”

“I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.”

“There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.”

“The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.”

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”