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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait...

A lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. A lot of non-white actors are not all that great.

In the world of poker, it's not heroic to try to function on a couple hours of sleep.

In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Understandably, no peace can be sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

It's all about the audience and the people who support your work and respond to it. So, anytime I hear that 'Next to Normal' is affecting people, it goes beyond my wildest dreams of what I set out to...

While you may watch what you eat, food is only half the battle. Liquid calories count just as much - maybe even more!

I always wanted to direct stories that are big scale and fantastical worlds.

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.

My favorite would be 'Love to Love You' because from zero, I went to Number One. I don't think it's the best song - the best one is probably between 'Flashdance' and 'Take My Breath Away.'

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

New Yorkers are smart.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can say they completed, in every aspect, what they wanted to do with their life.

I think my worst habit is struggling with technology, even though I know how this stuff works, I need to bring conscious thought into how I use.

Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.

I'm a can-do girl.

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think...

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

I just want to keep fighting and showing off my skills.

I don't really care what anybody has to say about me.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

You have to play to your strengths, and my strength is the amount of content I create.

I was talking to Rupert Murdoch the other day at a lunch, and he said, 'Maybe I'll live to 100'. He actually thinks he will live to 100!

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable...

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.