Every accepted public quote

“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.”

“All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.”

“Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recogniz...”

“When I was young, I read the Bible, and I already knew what it meant to be the good guy - and look what happened to Jesus. So, I already understood that you get ridiculed for telling the tru...”

“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many...”

“From the moment Donald Trump was inaugurated, Washington Democrats have been myopically focused on politically targeting his administration and impeaching him.”

“I found that doing Pilates consistently three to four times a week had an amazing effect on really toning and shaping a tight waist and legs.”

“For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. Sh...”

“I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.”

“What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?”

“I'm at least smart enough to know I could never fill Billy Graham's shoes, but I'm grateful he gave me an opportunity to help him finish his race on earth well and to continue his life's wor...”

“I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.”

“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”

“When there is no way, introspect yourself with a calm mind, you will always find one .”

“In a series of forms graduating insensibly from some apelike creature to man as he now exists, it would be impossible to fix on any definite point where the term 'man' ought to be used.”

“Those who choose God 'have' God”

“Act like nothing's wrong and smile like it not hurting you. It will confuse enemies”

“Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the...”

“I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.”

“Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for...”

“Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.”

“You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.”

“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”

“Sickness is the manifestation of the spirit not running the body.”

“We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.”

“As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.”

“People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.”

“Religion without righteousness of Faith is vain hope.”

“I went to Catholic schools my entire life and never had anything close to a cis heterosexual sexual education let alone a queer one. Everything I learned was trial and error or the Internet...”

“With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.”

“To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.”

“My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like,...”

“We should be looking at the bigger picture. It's all very well going around driving our Priuses, but we have to look to our governments to make us less reliant on oil.”

“I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.”

“You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players an...”

“I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world...”

“When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism,...”

“I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.”

“When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.”

“Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.”

“My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.”

“At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.'”

“There is a heavy-ego, solitary model of being an elected leader. We've certainly seen that in some other mayors of this city... I have much more of a Movement mentality. It's much more of wh...”

“A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.”

“When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.”

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”

“The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.”

“As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.”