Every accepted public quote

“Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am”

“I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.”

“What people don't realize is that the initial sales of an album isn't where the bulk of your returns come from. It happens over time, sitting in the catalog, picking up commercials, getting...”

“Moreover, in conversations with women, men do most of the talking (Haas, 1979), and despite hackneyed stereotypes about women being more talkative than men, we're apparently used to this pat...”

“My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.”

“I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.”

“I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.”

“One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.”

“I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.”

“Football, particularly Brazilian football, is about being happy, and that's what tricks do. It's part of our culture, at the end of the day, though, it's all about winning.”

“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”

“It would be far less interesting, after 'The Empire Strikes Back,' to have an hour-long movie in between 'Empire' and 'Return of the Jedi,' where Luke is training. It's so much cooler to cut...”

“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”

“Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.”

“I just wanted to go to New York and be on Broadway, but then I was accepted by Juilliard, where they trained me in classical voice. It was great in the end, but at the time, I thought, 'What...”

“God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.”

“I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you coul...”

“You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.”

“The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.”

“Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public pol...”

“Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.”

“I like to think that everything I do is tastefully done and doesn't come off necessarily like ratchet or something that tears women down. I like to make tasteful, seductive music.”

“It is very overwhelming to find that you are loved by people belonging to different provinces and cultures. They give me the energy.”

“Richard Fliehr does not make any money.”

“Sin forgiven, sin forsaken.”

“His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fe...”

“It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.”

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”

“She could not stop the chaos in her mind, so she became the ring leader of her thoughts.”

“I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.”

“You - and I have to remind myself of this - are capable beyond your wildest imagination.”

“Trump's appointed extremist judges to the federal bench, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, whose decisions demonstrate a judicial philosophy far more concerned with the righ...”

“Men in makeup is becoming more widely accepted. But it's going to take so much more open-mindedness to have it be a common thing.”

“I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.”

“Some people choose to take the problems of the world and brand them as their own problems. They brag & glorify their bad situation or problems , rather than choosing to find a solution for t...”

“With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.”

“But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention i...”

“I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think about the baby weight. I would just be with my baby in my own little world. And then, once I st...”

“A mercurial plan of action may have worked in the Trump Organization board room, but it's a disastrous tactic in foreign affairs.”

“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in...”

“Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still...”

“As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.”

“Pitch tip: Speak confidently about your product, but be able to admit when you need more information, and get it to the people you're pitching quickly after the meeting.”

“Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.”

“If you're the leader, you have to communicate the message of immortality to your people. Because I believe if a leader hides behind a rock, then the people will hide behind a mountain.”

“The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.”

“My wife may be the role model for our daughter in some ways, but I think I represent what she'll put up with. You know, I think one day she'll say, 'OK my dad behaved this way, so if whoever...”

“If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it...”