- I have actor friends, but they’re not famous. I feel like if you’re an actor or – famous, you have to overly prove that you’re a normal, cool person.
- This is like the telephone problem – no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
- Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.
- She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
- Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Well, I’ve never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
- Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
- The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
- The drink? Yes, I’ve had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.
- I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
- It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
- What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can’t leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.
- A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.’
- In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
- We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
- I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.
- You shouldn’t have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
- There’s an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim – the album with ‘The Girl From Ipanema.’ That’s the most seductive music ever.
- Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.
- My wife gets pampered pretty well. She’s had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.
- I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
- Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
- Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
- It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
- I went whole hog at the actor’s lifestyle – really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary – that’s the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
- We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.
- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
- I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
- When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
- Excessive fear is always powerless.
- Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
- I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
- Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don’t have to take it home with you at night. It’s the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
- Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
- Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
- I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays… maybe I could.
- Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.