Every accepted public quote

“Once, Pee-wee Herman tweeted a photo of this guitar I made that's shaped like a slice of pizza, and it meant a lot to me. People downplay it, but there's power there, people reaching toward...”

“Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.”

“I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.”

“The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.”

“The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.”

“I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris.”

“If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.”

“Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.”

“I speak two languages, Body and English.”

“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure i...”

“Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.”

“I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, bu...”

“When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.”

“There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.”

“You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11", you know, and playing in the National Football League.”

“The main element of true reconciliation is the public education system.”

“Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.”

“I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-y...”

“Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.”

“Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.”

“Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.”

“The country needs fiscal discipline to build a strong economy and for social justice.”

“I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that thos...”

“I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.”

“You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.”

“You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.”

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance l...”

“Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.”

“Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of imper...”

“One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why...”

“My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We've tried so many different angles and approaches. But when it happens, it happens, and you just run with it.”

“I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”

“It's - I mean, the Olympics, what is it? It's an international competition to foster friendship and - and competition across - across the planet, and I think that's exactly what the Internat...”

“I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and cha...”

“I like people with their own opinions, and I like people who argue with me. It's very exhausting to be in a room full of people who just nod and smile.”

“What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.”

“I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definite...”

“The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless agg...”

“The partition between love and anger is thin. I suppose it's a need to protect the self from further wounding that makes people scream at the one they love.”

“To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.”

“If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.”

“Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given autho...”

“To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.”

“I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.”

“Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased”

“Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.”

“Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.”

“According to the Bible, sex isn't something sinful, but rather a wonderful gift from God to be thoroughly enjoyed within the boundaries of marriage.”