Every accepted public quote

“I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food...”

“Detention cells in Hong Kong are not pleasant. In Thailand they are even worse. In Hong Kong you are at least allowed to see your lawyers.”

“When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs with titles like 'Unify' and 'You're Special.' And there's this song that reminds me of Meg...”

“Game's always been open arms with me.”

“When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain yo...”

“I have mixed feelings about 'Car 54, Where Are You?' Because we shot it as a musical and whoever the studio head was at Orion, or whoever the powers that be were, cut all but, like, two musi...”

“As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it...”

“I wasn't always this introverted.”

“I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.”

“I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.”

“Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.”

“I abhor mere prettiness.”

“No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into...”

“I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's...”

“If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.”

“If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going throug...”

“Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.”

“I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.”

“Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.”

“I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.”

“There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and su...”

“Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)”

“The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.”

“Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.”

“Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it.”

“Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.”

“I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.”

“Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.”

“Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.”

“Giving back to where I grew up means a lot to me. These kids need it, and I use to be one of those kids. Being able to see someone from where you from make it and come back and genuine give...”

“I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an enti...”

“Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's th...”

“There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.”

“I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.”

“What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect...”

“There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.”

“To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop figh...”

“Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.”

“The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.”

“As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.”

“Why would you want to shut down a nuclear plant, which requires at most about 1 square mile of land, to replace that power source with windmills, which would require 300 square miles of land...”

“Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart.”

“Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.”

“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”

“I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I though...”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”

“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”

“Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.”