Every accepted public quote

“Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.”

“We repeatedly tell patients we are not in a hurry; there are no trains to catch and we don't care when the baby comes, only how! A doctor who is in a hurry does not belong in the field of ob...”

“There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.”

“I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.”

“I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they k...”

“...the earth on which we live is the body of God. All people and living things are the body and soul of God. And...we serve God not by making the earth and its people suffer but by making th...”

“That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.”

“Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.”

“That's one thing people don't know about me - I eat in my sleep. I can't keep things in the house; I literally have in my refrigerator water, coconut water, orange juice, hemp milk and like,...”

“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”

“The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen and then helium. And that's what combusts in stars. Finally, star...”

“You attract poverty when you lack value for time”

“If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.”

“I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played a lot until I was about ten or eleven years old. So, I guess five or six years where I pl...”

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.”

“I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'”

“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.”

“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”

“Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.”

“An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.”

“I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'”

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

“Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.”

“Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own...”

“We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.”

“My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is fa...”

“The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that...”

“Conquer your fear and move up the ladder of success.”

“I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.”

“I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we ho...”

“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”

“Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.”

“I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both bee...”

“If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.”

“I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.”

“It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.”

“The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-...”

“One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid chara...”

“I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.”

“People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.”

“I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.”

“It's not hard to see how accusations against Trump as a racist and misogynist would be met with eye rolls and knowing murmurs of 'political correctness' by people who have had their worldvie...”

“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”

“We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.”

“In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.”

“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”

“You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.”