Every accepted public quote

“If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.”

“As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.”

“I think when people talk about race relations in America, they talk about African-American and white people. Asians are not often brought into the conversation. But there's a historical lega...”

“I want to be helpful and give back to the society when I die. There are so many people in this world who are not able to see God's beautiful creations or enjoy this life. If my eyes or other...”

“I like to play characters that have an inner confidence about them that maybe you wouldn't expect them to have and that they aren't afraid to unleash occasionally.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

“We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the original 'Frankenstein.' It was uncensored, so as a child, I saw the scene where he throws t...”

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

“Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak to my parents. So I went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts for theater, and I studied at t...”

“Hillary Clinton is excoriating Donald Trump over Trump University? The Clinton scandal at Laureate Education, a for-profit education chain of schools and colleges operating world-wide, inclu...”

“Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out...”

“How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet...”

“Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.”

“Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. When...”

“I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do thin...”

“I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.”

“From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.”

“I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.”

“After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.”

“When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.”

“The best gift you can give anyone is to spend quality time with them.”

“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”

“What happened on 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' I was given a big budget and given too many choices, and I made a lot of mistakes and missteps early on until I squandered all that extra money. But then...”

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”

“So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the sho...”

“Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.”

“When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reserv...”

“More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.”

“I want more girls' nights, more dinner parties, more date nights, more nights on the couch with zucchini fries watching bad reality television.”

“I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. Th...”

“If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.”

“I love Sarah Jessica Parker. What's not to like?”

“When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.”

“Everybody looks at the negative effects of global warming, but with the ice melting, the Northern Passage has opened up. So maybe, instead of being at the end of the pipeline, we're now at t...”

“Wherever you go in life, go with love in your heart, hope in your soul, and joy in your mind. For love, hope and joy will take you far.”

“I realized that with African American people, where we've been blocked from being all that God meant for us to be, I don't have time to be patient.”

“If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.”

“Pushing through the pain, man finally find his power.”

“I follow an extremely strict diet counting my calorie intake, keeping in mind a very balanced ratio of proteins, carbs, and fats.”

“The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.”

“Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”

“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with...”

“If you wish to go closer to God, then follow the path of Love.”

“The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.”

“We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.”

“When I try to go with what's happening and embrace that as much as I can, it seems to be a much smoother journey for me.”

“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.”