Every accepted public quote

“Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.”

“'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could d...”

“In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.”

“I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also...”

“The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that 'Hamilton' is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different col...”

“Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.”

“It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.”

“You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.”

“It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.”

“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”

“Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris.”

“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”

“I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.”

“I went to a military school, so I'm always talking like 'Yes, sir,' or 'No, ma'am.' I was doing that even before military school, so I've always had it, I guess.”

“I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.”

“Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.”

“Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.”

“It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.”

“If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.”

“I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.”

“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”

“If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round o...”

“I know it's tough losing someone you respected, but it will get better. Don't let that affect you from reaching your goals... don't get side-stepped by a tragedy like this. I know it's sad....”

“I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the...”

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”

“My wife never went to many Liverpool games but if she was out on a Saturday, she would always ask someone for the score. If we had won, she'd simply be relieved that I would be coming home i...”

“But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood...”

“I want Yahoo to be the absolute best place to work, to have a fantastic culture.”

“I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.”

“Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a...”

“Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you...”

“How I am in the booth, how I am when I meet you, that's how I am in general.”

“Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.”

“Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not c...”

“During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival...”

“The quality of your sensuality is in direct proportion to the hardships you face in life.”

“Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of...”

“I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I...”

“I'm not where I need to be, but thank God I'm not where I used to be.”

“The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and...”

“This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.”

“I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher...”

“Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.”

“The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.”

“I'm super into their trench coats. I've been wearing them for a while. Even my mom, she loves them. Definitely working with Burberry is a dope collaboration, just a good opportunity.”

“A lack of committed leadership is the reason why we have chosen to always step forward and provide our own direction. Even if that means engaging in major protests to save the future of our...”

“Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.”