Every accepted public quote

“I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't...”

“I've had many conversations with the Clinton family. We're friends. It's hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were g...”

“I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?”

“It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means somethi...”

“I have a pig valve.”

“I'm originally from Nova Scotia.”

“Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”

“Time is a great healer and a great killer. Anyone wasting time suffers a lot.”

“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet...”

“I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.”

“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”

“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.”

“I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.”

“Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.”

“There was once a tiger-striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, and lived a million lives, and in those lives, various people owned him. None of those people he cared for. This cat was n...”

“Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.”

“I am a morning person and the first task for me in the morning is to hit the gym.”

“John Cena is one of the great WWE talents that I respect most. If I were to end up there, working with someone of his caliber would certainly be a goal and jive with my mission of changing w...”

“I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so un...”

“Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a femini...”

“Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart”

“Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.”

“One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive....”

“Love must bloom even during the summers.”

“You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.”

“Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?”

“I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.”

“I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I...”

“'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.”

“Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.”

“Not one criminal charge has ever been brought to any bank executive associated with the 2008 crisis. And in fact, it gets worse. No bonuses and none of their equity was taken.”

“I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our e...”

“I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is...”

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

“I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.”

“I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.”

“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”

“I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.”

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”

“Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.”

“Bruh...”

“It's all positive energy from me, man.”

“You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist”

“The thing that I like about action sequences is that if they're done well, you get to know more about the character in those few minutes than you do through 10 minutes of exposition.”

“Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

“Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.”

“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.”