Every accepted public quote

“The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.”

“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat wil...”

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

“I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.”

“I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.”

“So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.”

“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”

“Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.”

“I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.”

“Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.”

“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”

“The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.”

“God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.”

“The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.”

“I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechani...”

“No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.”

“The right way to do any social work is to work until you're not needed anymore.”

“Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.”

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peer...”

“When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole aci...”

“When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.”

“The people in 'July, July' do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is wha...”

“I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.”

“My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usu...”

“People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone...”

“If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.”

“I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the...”

“I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.”

“I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.”

“My wife and daughter both bust me on how much I am the guy yelling at kids to get off my lawn.”

“Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.”

“With superstars like Aamirji and Salmanji playing real-life wrestlers, the sport will get some positive attention. Just like hockey did when Shah Rukhji played a hockey player in 'Chak De.'”

“More than anything, I prided myself when it was all set and done; the faith the company had in me to have seven segments on a television show - you have to tune in to see what can happen nex...”

“My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.”

“I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.”

“For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of di...”

“When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.”

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything”

“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect...”

“You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.”

“Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.”

“Growing up, I always looked up to males or comedians such as Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. I also love Lucille Ball, from the show 'I Love Lucy.'”

“There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the mov...”

“During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Gen...”

“There is no happiness without honesty. If you're seeking happiness, start by being totally honest.”

“When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.”

“When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.”