I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.
Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.
I always liked the idea that Thor was the god who'd wake up every day and look at that hammer and not know whether he was going to pick it up. Only the worthy can lift the hammer of Thor, and I love the idea of a god who was always questioning his own worthiness.
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'
Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.
It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.
The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month cable bill.
Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.
Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
