Every accepted public quote

“Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.”

“I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.”

“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.”

“My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!”

“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”

“The Ivory Coast had been begging for ages. The country and the fans love me already, and I haven't even done anything. I may not get the red carpet - it may not have the same Nike deals as w...”

“I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.”

“Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.”

“I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I wo...”

“I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very par...”

“It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.”

“Don't be surprised when you arrive at a place at the end of a road you insist on traveling down!”

“Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.”

“To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.”

“Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things aro...”

“In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour t...”

“We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...”

“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of a...”

“Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about mi...”

“Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday peo...”

“College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.”

“We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.”

“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be...”

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.”

“I haven't wanted to portray a manager since Paul E. Dangerously was with the Samoan Swat Team in 1989. I've always wanted to do some different presentation in that role. I don't consider mys...”

“I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.”

“I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel...”

“I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.”

“If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.”

“The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That...”

“We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can alm...”

“But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.”

“The so-called complexities we encounter in daily activities are nothing more than misinterpretations of the now.”

“My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.”

“What made me want to play drums in the first place was Led Zeppelin and The Who. My parents had their records, and I grew up listening to them with the stereo cranked.”

“The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.”

“It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with...”

“We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.”

“What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would be rounded up, taken to the airport and expelled.”

“Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. L...”

“My poems awake at the sound of your name...”

“I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.”

“The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.”

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”

“They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don't regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I think the mistake was, when the bad news came, they didn't recognize i...”

“Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There a...”

“Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.”

“Nobody is convinced that Johnny Depp goes to Walmart dressed as Sweeney Todd, but everyone expects us to.”