Every accepted public quote

“We can bring it all down to the subtleties of the shifting of an eye because we know the camera will catch it. That has been a great thing to learn, and it makes it interesting for a guy who...”

“My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.”

“You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.”

“I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this...”

“It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.”

“From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have h...”

“Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.”

“In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.”

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”

“It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'. Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.”

“I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.”

“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”

“The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you r...”

“A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

“I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.”

“I was rich before I had any money. Being rich has nothing to do with anything monetary.”

“To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.”

“My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the th...”

“Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic...”

“I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.”

“It is horrid to smirk.”

“When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.”

“When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by...”

“I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.”

“There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.”

“I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.”

“At any one time the world has a very limited number of Steve Jobs or Winston Churchills or Thomas Watson the firsts. These are wonderful people and we can learn much from them, but praying f...”

“Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.”

“I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.”

“Because beauty doesn't demand attention but commands it,”

“I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?”

“Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. T...”

“Don't Worry Be Happy”

“I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.”

“While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you real...”

“Jackie was speaking at a drugstore, and I said, 'I'm not going to get this opportunity again, so I better take my chances and listen to Jackie Robinson now.' Little did I know, I got front r...”

“When I Am Dead, My Dearest When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress-tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops...”

“If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.”

“For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global defl...”

“I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.”

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”

“I'm playing right now a role, and the role is called the 'Heavyweight Champion of the World.' And it takes all of the time. And I love this role, and it takes a lot of attention for me for t...”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“I just made a decision a long time ago: I'm not going to be defined by a scoreboard.”

“My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.”

“I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.”

“I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period th...”

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”