Every accepted public quote

“Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”

“Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.”

“Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their wor...”

“There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.”

“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”

“They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”

“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.”

“As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to...”

“A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no su...”

“I think maybe it's time for liberals to not start weeping when I say things like 'retard' or 'illegal alien.'”

“The arch of history may be long, but it bends away from reality.”

“Who is this woman? Hair like fire, Wise eyes like owl eyes, Strong hands like a warrior's.”

“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”

“Put a girl in moonlight and tell only truths and every man becomes a poet.”

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of...”

“I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.”

“In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she...”

“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

“I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical aside...”

“I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I'm here alone.”

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indiff...”

“I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.”

“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”

“Even the wisest among us do not possess complete knowledge of every subject; however, they acquire a deep understanding regarding the limits of their knowledge. Acknowledge, the extent of yo...”

“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”

“We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.”

“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”

“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”

“The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.”

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”

“It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.”

“Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him. 'Mum! I can't give a professor love!' 'But you know Neville-' James rolled his eyes. 'Outside, yeah, but at school...”

“Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

“Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.”

“Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.”

“Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.”

“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”

“I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sl...”

“This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.”

“People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.”

“Different is good, and being different is what makes us stand out in the world.”

“As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.”

“Some are constantly critical of the world around them, while others discern grandeur in the identical shoes.”

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make; you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the be...”

“Knowledge is having a mental history of past events and wisdom is having the ability to relate those past events to the present and future.”

“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”