Every accepted public quote

“When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally. My mother had one particular Dumas book that was a family heirloom - this old, beat-up 1938...”

“If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the lef...”

“There are two kinds of magic. If you think of it like martial arts, there's sparring, where you are doing it with a partner, and the other is kata, where you're doing an exposition for the a...”

“I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.”

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”

“Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.”

“It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.”

“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”

“Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.”

“Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.”

“I would say I think Jason is going to lose and Freddy will win. I don't know why. I just feel that Freddy is more maniacal and thinks more than Jason does.”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

“The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.”

“Habits form much more than our schedules: they form our hearts.”

“In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.”

“The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.”

“I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.”

“One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.”

“If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.”

“Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspira...”

“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great...”

“I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.”

“I used to think I actually was Batman.”

“It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understan...”

“Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.”

“O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man...”

“Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness.”

“Milan has no reservations signing veteran players and has always taken into account the image and communication factors.”

“True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.”

“You can't support long-term relationships, there are times when people are no longer interested in me.”

“Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or...”

“You are your own nearest environment, so begin with yourself.”

“You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when you...”

“Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.”

“Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.”

“The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures i...”

“I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.”

“There's always a spot, any time we make a new record, where I literally go back to Judas Priest and Motorhead because you have to. You have to go back and understand where this all started f...”

“You have a short window, you know, and if I plan on living the lifestyle I want, I've got to make a nest egg.”

“I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar....”

“I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regul...”

“We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.”

“If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.”

“I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.”

“As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.”

“Why do we give so much of ourself to a person. Does this person really need it? Isn't it a contradiction of life that when we love someone so much that we overwhelm them with too much of our...”