Every accepted public quote

“The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.”

“Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.”

“To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your...”

“The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.”

“For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.”

“I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.”

“Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still d...”

“There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.”

“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”

“For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.”

“No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power; in every mixed movement the efficacy comes from the good elements not fr...”

“I have an image in my mind of what I want, whether it's a light jacket or a one-piece. I can tell if what I want is in the store right away.”

“Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.”

“L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting di...”

“Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too in...”

“The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.”

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”

“I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.”

“I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.”

“I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's the rhythm thing that's way more impressive and important to a band.”

“For me, it's vital to continue to share my experiences and allow my experiences to help the younger generation.”

“Never was a miser a brave soul.”

“Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of...”

“Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.”

“The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you...”

“TV does not have anything meaty to offer the male actors. It is a female-dominated industry.”

“I don't necessarily have favorite brands.”

“Wars often begin with enthusiastic vigor but typically settle into costly, dirty business characterized for soldiers by fear, frustration, and loneliness.”

“I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.”

“The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.”

“Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.”

“Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks; and I am...”

“When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.”

“If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.”

“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”

“This is a crisis in our culture because we have stopped raising MEN and wee are raising P U S I L L A N I M O U S males at epidemic proportions!”

“The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.”

“My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.”

“Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence w...”

“My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'”

“I'm against exclusion of any kind - whether that's restricting people from Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. or kicking merchants off our platform if they're operating within th...”

“Instead of going out and looking for someone successful who could serve as a role model and guide your path to success, be yourself and inspire yourself to achieve that which you always want...”

“I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.”

“Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving valu...”

“I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.”

“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but lov...”

“My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.”

“You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unski...”