Every accepted public quote

“I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.”

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

“I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.”

“I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have so...”

“When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems - like prejudice and desegregation, f...”

“All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.”

“Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people. The real Jesus of the Bible said, 'Render unto Caesar the things that are Cae...”

“You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.”

“Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.”

“In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at lea...”

“No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

“My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.”

“My mother took my brother and I to a production of 'The Tempest', and it was in this very small - it could have been the basement of a church or a black box. The space was vast, but there we...”

“But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been...”

“Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.”

“Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.”

“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.”

“Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.”

“as a flower, she knew he was no god, because he existed. he just was. and he was always there for her. his being was the heart-shaped light from the way-beyond. and when she saw his glow, fe...”

“I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.”

“I always take a hot shower before I go onstage. It's so refreshing. I let the steam into my throat. That's the way I warm up my vocal cords - in the shower. I start by humming and then final...”

“You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've a...”

“if its gets rough, you need to get tough.”

“I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.”

“I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.”

“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”

“I have an old car that I've rebuilt myself - a 1973 Dodge Challenger - and I also have a 1967 Pontiac GTO.”

“Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.”

“Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal.”

“There are moments in our life when we meet someone and we feel as if we have known them all our lives. It seems astounding really to know that you can understand each other so well. It feels...”

“I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.”

“The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.”

“My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.”

“Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainme...”

“I get deep into the creative aspect, and Nick is the people person.”

“I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.”

“Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your...”

“I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many wom...”

“Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.”

“The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.”

“Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.”

“We know how hard we've worked, we know how our choreography makes us feel empowered. We have our voices, which are incredible and kind of surpass anything else.”

“I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.”

“I went into a Whole Foods to buy chewable vitamin C and got tackled by, like, 15 girls who watch 'Empire.'”

“But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.”

“abyss, n. There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.”

“I was doing a lot of networking in the Valley, and I found that it was not a very diverse environment, and most of the conferences and meetup events I went to, there weren't many women or pe...”