Every accepted public quote

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”

“We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.”

“Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.”

“There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.”

“The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.”

“Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly.”

“As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.”

“How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?”

“The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as poli...”

“The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall.”

“If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.”

“If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.”

“When we're connected to others, we become better people.”

“There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volu...”

“At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.”

“I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually hav...”

“I want to win games. I want to win Super Bowls.”

“The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world...”

“I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography,...”

“Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for E...”

“You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.”

“Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the futu...”

“Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.”

“I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.”

“I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what people want, you end up with the kind of same schlock that everybod...”

“I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people la...”

“I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.”

“I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.”

“Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.”

“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”

“Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives tra...”

“I loved the Rumble that Shawn Michaels won. Bulldog threw him over, and he hung on by the skin of the teeth and dumped Bulldog - that was one of my favourite ones.”

“People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating....”

“Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is b...”

“The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots a...”

“For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn. When you see it floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you...”

“Equal pay for equal work is a fundamental concept of labor agreements.”

“I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenne...”

“I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.”

“I feel like I needed a balance. I don't want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.”

“One of my favorite salads is spinach with pickled strawberries.”

“There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.”

“Your neck. I want to kiss it.”

“I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in th...”

“Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.”

“Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presenc...”

“Life is indeed short so eating dessert first is an appropriate religion for many.”

“The Meatbats are a throwback band.”