Every accepted public quote

“They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.”

“If I could work with Eddie Murphy on 'SNL,' I think I could quit comedy forever. For me and my generation, he's God.”

“Every time the market has corrected, since 2008, it's always been the Fed that's made the bottom. The Fed has always saved the market either by cutting rates, launching QE, or threatening to...”

“To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted wit...”

“Titan has no liquid water on its surface, and any liquid water beneath its surface is inaccessible to us, as far as we know. It has hydrocarbon lakes, but we don't know of any organisms that...”

“Whereas a lot of Buddhism concerns itself with stages of enlightenment, various precepts and moral codes, and even power structures and hierarchies, Zen is just like, 'Shut up, sit down, and...”

“All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.”

“It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, j...”

“I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.”

“I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a...”

“If you want a thing done, go - if not, send.”

“It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.”

“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.”

“Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the slee...”

“The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.”

“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other peop...”

“I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.”

“It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.”

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

“You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”

“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”

“I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's alwa...”

“Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.”

“It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they...”

“Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.”

“Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.”

“There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.”

“My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.”

“Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three stat...”

“The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves.”

“I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.”

“There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.”

“I grew up in the South London outer areas of Bromley and Croydon. Bromley and Croydon are interchangeable punch lines to any joke somebody wants to make about a shit part of England.”

“Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.”

“Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.”

“I'm a good juggler. If you want to court a woman, you need to be able to juggle five balls, fire, and knives.”

“Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little hope is a...”

“One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.”

“This present moment is the moment that matters the most because you are in it, and, as I said, if you value being alive, then you value the moment you are most alive in, which is right now.”

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.”

“We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.”

“Okay, the experience itself was a pleasant experience.”

“I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd...”

“Somebody needs me, therefore I teach.”

“Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.”

“We all have a passion in life be it writing, singing, dancing, painting, traveling, acting, cooking, modelling, helping the needy, taking photographs, or playing sports; we must always love...”

“Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.”

“The higher the unemployment rate, the more leverage I have to 'encourage' you to 'do what it takes' to keep your job. And so you work even more hours, pushing unemployment up and wages down....”