Every accepted public quote

“Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.”

“Pretty much my dreams came true when I did a duet with Lea Michele.”

“Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.”

“When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we sa...”

“I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.”

“When I knew I wanted to write a novel that would be a twist on a conventional romantic comedy, I re-watched 'When Harry Met Sally,' as well as the other two films in the indomitable Ephron t...”

“When I wear Chanel, I feel like I'm not just wearing clothes: I'm wearing Chanel.”

“Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.”

“The ocean, to me, is one of the most terrifying things on the planet.”

“There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.”

“I can't protect you from knowledge.”

“If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.”

“If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Yo...”

“I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two...”

“Individuals blind to the sexual opposite within them, be they men or women, never realise that the partner they choose is chosen because he or she bears some resemblance to the anima or anim...”

“It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it app...”

“I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove m...”

“Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and cann...”

“Fate pulls you in different directions.”

“Call it spirituality, scientific investigation, enlightenment or atheism, there exists an actual reality.”

“Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.”

“I grew up in an environment where I could see the kind of havoc alcohol can create.”

“The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.”

“There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.”

“What if we changed the story that has been peddled to us over thousands of years by those religions that want to control us, that this life is merely a stepping stone to something better or...”

“Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen...”

“Ultimately, taxpayers deserve a government that leverages technology to serve them, rather than one that deploys unsecure, decades old technology, and keeps sensitive information in non-encr...”

“If you want fame or wealth or wolves, go out and hunt for them.”

“No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,”

“We seem to be the victims of religious dogma, both from the Christian Right here and, of course, in the East with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.”

“Any time that we read a script and the 'Leverage' team has to infiltrate a place, assume identities, or become con artists ourselves to take down the really bad con artists, it's always fun...”

“If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be abl...”

“Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and g...”

“We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worl...”

“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.”

“Trump has been donating big money and influencing politics for years. In fact, while conservative Tea Party groups were working extremely hard to defeat ObamaCare before it passed in 2010, T...”

“The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around the world, they were rightly herald...”

“I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but...”

“Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservat...”

“I just felt like actors - I watched a lot of 'SNL,' and those guys just seemed like they were superheroes - that that wasn't a reality for anyone other than people with superhuman strength....”

“I have been gifted the grace of imagination, and for that, I am eternally grateful.”

“Every now and then, I deserve to say what I feel.”

“I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.”

“I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.”

“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”

“One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you.”

“The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.”

“I remember on 'Jug Face' working with Chad Crawford Kinkle, who is as sweet as they come. He told me someone had given him advice that if you're making a drama, you basically need to put you...”