Every accepted public quote

“Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain under...”

“There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and castin...”

“There was a voice, a song, a woman's voice that from time to time the breeze carried all the way up here to you from some open window; there was a lone song that on summer nights the air bro...”

“I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically train...”

“Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do t...”

“I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me.”

“I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.”

“I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.”

“I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'”

“I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroach...”

“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”

“For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring...”

“There are no rules in live television.”

“Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break...”

“I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'”

“One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family...”

“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a...”

“The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.”

“People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.”

“My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal...”

“Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.”

“I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in...”

“It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.”

“I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.”

“I still direct my own videos.”

“If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various po...”

“I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.”

“With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.”

“In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't...”

“Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment...”

“I have a lot of that in my own life - passion, vigour, and what comes coupled with that.”

“There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.”

“The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.”

“I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.”

“Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.”

“God grant us the courage to change those things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.”

“I chose to buy a house in Montauk because it has a sleepier vibe than the rest of the East End. I also felt that I would run into city people in East Hampton and wanted more of a buffer.”

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.”

“I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.”

“There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest...”

“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.”

“I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.”

“Be submissive to one another.' By this phrase, the idea of hierarchy -- that one has authority over another -- is completely eliminated. If coercion and force is not used, the submission is...”

“Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moo...”

“I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like the...”

“Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.”

“The affinity towards suits was a functional thing for me early on because I was thrifting at secondhand shops, and it was also initially a way of grieving - my father had passed, and he used...”