Every accepted public quote

“I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.”

“If you intend to evaluate how your knowledge is applicable, transfer it to others.”

“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”

“I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost a...”

“Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.”

“I had half my family that were farmers, and I was really pretty good at repairing farm equipment. There was certainly a period of time where I would have been happy to do that, just to be a...”

“We had been to a couple really awkward office Christmas parties, including one at our production company. It's just a really interesting place, an event that hadn't really been captured.”

“Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lo...”

“At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.”

“Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my lif...”

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”

“I wasn't always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil - not by my family, not by my friends. Even my teachers at school didn't call me Virgil.”

“Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.”

“As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been targeted with, Mary Beard's 'Women & Power: A Manifesto' brought me a sense of...”

“You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.”

“We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.”

“Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.”

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”

“People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.”

“Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.”

“My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.”

“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”

“When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.”

“The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'”

“People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.”

“When I first came to Seoul to start model work, I felt bad asking for financial support from my parents, so I lived in the sauna for about six months.”

“The body is dynamic. You can eat something and get bloated in minutes.”

“Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later p...”

“I've always had to work to feel reassured, to feel secure, and that's not nice because you don't know where you stand.”

“When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.”

“Put on a sweater and really great sneakers with a big scarf, and you'll look so stylish. For me, they are an everyday essential.”

“What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that has been repetitive and established over many, many years, it doesn't...”

“I wanna meet Meryl Streep, so she can be my mama. I want Meryl Streep to be my mom in a movie.”

“The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.”

“Houston, we've had a problem.”

“Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for com...”

“The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.”

“Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemp...”

“We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”

“Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a han...”

“The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is...”

“I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.”

“It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.”

“American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.”

“I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.”

“I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.”

“There is something about someone making a fantastic sandwich, taking care to spread lots of mayo all the way to the edges. Making sure every bite has a bit of everything in it. There's somet...”

“Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.”