Every accepted public quote

“When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.”

“My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comf...”

“I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties.”

“Poetry is meant to be heard.”

“I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.”

“Happy wives matter.”

“The only cure for regret is patience.”

“Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.”

“We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.”

“I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.”

“If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.”

“Light may be shed on man and his origins.”

“I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business...”

“I've been incredibly blessed with good roles the past few years, but none of them compares to the experience of playing Ellsworth on 'Deadwood.' There are times when I've had as much fun or...”

“Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.”

“What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Ins...”

“A good garden may have some weeds.”

“I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.”

“Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting jo...”

“How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?”

“I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.”

“The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.”

“A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an inve...”

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.”

“Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.”

“I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and i...”

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no...”

“I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.”

“I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.”

“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.”

“I've done a lot of television, and there's no rehearsal process - you have to come to the set with your guns blazing and with a point of view.”

“I grew up in Bristol, R.I. I had grandparents and great-grandparents nearby, and because I was the only grandchild until I was 12, I was the center of a lot of adult attention.”

“At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and inn...”

“The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.”

“There is no reason why T-Mobile can't be successful on its own and the only real reason AT&T would want to own T-Mobile is to increase its exclusivity by owning more spectrum.”

“I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.”

“Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.”

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason...”

“Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.”

“Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of...”

“My dream school was USC. So I was like, alright, I'm going to apply to USC, and If I don't get in - I'm dropping out of school, and I'm pursuing music. So I applied, and I got in. I was like...”

“Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the ma...”

“They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.”

“I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story...”

“If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you may get stuck in a limited view of yourself. Instead, look beyond your years here on earth,...”

“I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.”

“Imagine if the people who have lived and learned still had the vitality to act upon the hard learned lessons - and not just share in a conversation, but lead.”

“We've been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you're always trying to find that end. So 'my shot' is speaking of a variety of shots. When you're a rappe...”