Every accepted public quote

“To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.”

“You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.”

“When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, th...”

“May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the b...”

“Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.”

“TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.”

“Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.”

“Stupidity is a charm that leaves its master slowly... if it leaves at all.”

“I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, stud...”

“From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up From your book, sa...”

“There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.”

“My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.”

“My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.”

“I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.”

“After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds...”

“God is a divine mirror, love is His highest reflection.”

“I traded my 2002 Silverado in for the Trailblazer, and after my second fight, I got a win bonus. It was the knockout-of-the-night bonus, $50,000, and I paid the rest of my car off, and I gav...”

“Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that's your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the bes...”

“The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're...”

“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.”

“I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a...”

“I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to see if the story is going to radiate spokes. Their literature has always done that and gifted...”

“'So Much More Than This' is about just getting tangled up in all of the drama and stuff that really does not matter and probably won't matter in, like, three months.”

“'Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast members.”

“As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclys...”

“Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.”

“I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised h...”

“Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he natura...”

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

“When the flowers start blooming, I like to ride my bike.”

“But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.”

“Paul Ryan is the gold standard for conservatism.”

“In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.”

“Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.”

“Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job tr...”

“At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.”

“Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.”

“Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in calm, stretch our sympathies, reignite our senses, and reawaken app...”

“All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.”

“Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was g...”

“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.”

“Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, y...”

“Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.”

“Every year, there's a new idea we can't do and a new technology for something that excites us.”

“the art of reading, it occupies your mind no matter at any situation or mood you're in..bringing you to completely different world, the enchanting world of the characters..giving you the bes...”

“Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.”

“I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.”

“The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.”