Every accepted public quote

“When you smile, it lights me up!”

“I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.”

“Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.”

“Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.”

“I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding loo...”

“When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm...”

“I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.”

“Neve Campbell, Scott Wolf, and Paula Devicqu - we all keep in close touch. Especially now that I have the baby, I want to share her with my extended family. And I do consider them part of my...”

“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.”

“Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.”

“Trust your inner know”

“I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.”

“I've actually picked up a lot of good habits from just watching film from Demetrious Johnson.”

“A 'Guardians' sequel and a 'Gilmore Girls' reboot right at the same time was really awesome.”

“I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to act...”

“I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to dro...”

“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”

“For me, I love Portland. I love the food scene, I love the vibe, the environment.”

“If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to expl...”

“I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.”

“There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. I...”

“I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the childre...”

“Never interpret wrong! If you couldn't understand the actual meaning of my philosophy.”

“A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.”

“You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!”

“Even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lighting or take severe...”

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

“One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.”

“I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my...”

“I grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with my parents and sisters, but my family would drive every weekend to Hammonton, where both my grandparents lived and where my parents were raised.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”

“Anyone that watches WWE realizes a lot of times we do big stuff. We're considered over the top.”

“Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.”

“I'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets.”

“If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.”

“I have come to understand god as a mystery for whom it is a privilege to seek or even deny, rather than as one for whom it is my obligation to perform.”

“Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.”

“The Prohibition era had been a great source of material for building an excellent science of alcohol intoxication”

“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law of following good and shu...”

“I was about six, and Liverpool had a community summer camp. They sent a few invites to my school and my age group, to my class specifically, and they were like, 'Who wants to go?' So every l...”

“The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.”

“Villas-Boas wasn't a bad man, not at all.”

“We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a wo...”

“I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.”

“I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.”

“After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintag...”

“I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... look for wrecks. Then, six months later, I might start another book.”

“I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'”