Every accepted public quote

“Our family has dinner together every night - you can tell that my daughter wants to run. After dinner, I go up to my room and immediately put on my pajamas. I mean, immediately. I read some...”

“Time: the critic for whom nothing is ever good enough.”

“When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else t...”

“I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.”

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

“Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.”

“I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise.”

“Some people's parents listened to the Beatles... but my family is Alquimia, Celia Cruz, and Carlos Vives - this old, rich Colombian music. I loved hearing that while I was growing up.”

“As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.”

“Gaiety can be found in making others happy. The true felicity is an inner quality. A state and peace of mind!”

“Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only second...”

“My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but y...”

“Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life...”

“The idea of 'Freedom's Goblin,' to me, leads to a wild conversation. I would hope that father and son, driving home from the record store, could have a conversation about what that title mea...”

“I got sick of trying everything. I tried every single thing imaginable - diet, exercise. I even bought a house on the health spa property, and I still gained weight.”

“For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.”

“Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's larges...”

“I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.”

“The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in th...”

“I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't think you want to see me in 'Raisin in the Sun'.”

“This day, this hour, this minute, will not come around again in our entire life. Let us speak with love to everyone we meet and remind each other how beautiful we really are.”

“I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.”

“Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.”

“Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.”

“When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Blondie.”

“If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.”

“If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up.”

“Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we have...”

“The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!”

“My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.”

“Sometimes in football, you live great moments, and you live some sad moments.”

“I hate going into the audition room. I find it the most nerve-wracking, inhumane experience, and I think it's such an inhospitable environment to give an honest account of the character and,...”

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

“I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.”

“Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy.”

“We ought to relentlessly ignore excuses, especially those we are told by ourselves.”

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.”

“It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the popu...”

“I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transiti...”

“For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get acc...”

“I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actual...”

“One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whethe...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“We used to indulge hopelessly as a family at Christmas. When the children were little, I dressed up as Father Christmas. They knew it was a gag, but they loved it. I remember stealing into t...”

“Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.”

“I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.”

“The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.”