Every accepted public quote

“Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.”

“My wife gets so mad at me because I don't like to cook on the grill.”

“By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, com...”

“I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still d...”

“Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.”

“I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.”

“I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.”

“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”

“I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I'm doing it, but I never regret it.”

“When I was fourteen years old, I got arrested for battering an officer and resisting arrest with violence. I was beat up by the cops and they charged me with that. There was no original arre...”

“To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.”

“one transcendent kiss that later makes lovers take soft breaths, holding hands”

“I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.”

“It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through vio...”

“There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my...”

“Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.”

“The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.”

“I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive.”

“I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book.”

“We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.”

“When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something that was done Off-Off Broadway in a theater. It was called 'What Else Is T...”

“Oil companies have played a role in suppressing the development of alternative fuels.”

“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”

“Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.”

“Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the w...”

“Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things w...”

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”

“We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.”

“If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono...”

“It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.”

“While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepre...”

“So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castl...”

“When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age differ...”

“Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.”

“Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.”

“Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And to...”

“On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.”

“It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.”

“I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming.”

“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the num...”

“The one who would understand me is equally shy to start a conversation.”

“The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.”

“Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.”

“My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.”

“It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.”

“Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!”

“From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.”