The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 131)

Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.

Change comes from reflection.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

Life is hard, but we make it much harder.

My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.

I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

I had talent, and I was hungry for fame, and you can't say I didn't get it.

I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my bar mitzvah, the rabbi was in tears. He said to my parents, 'He must become a cantor in the synagogue,' but my mother said, 'No, he's going to be a concert pianist.'

I like Manchester - I've played it many times. The people have a lot of chein, a lot of heart, and the audiences are very receptive.

I am very proud of being Jewish.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Accomplish something every day of your life.

We cancelling sporting events, school, office work, etc etc. What we really need to cancel is 2020! Damn it's been a rough 3 months. God bless and stay safe.

Berlin will live and the Wall will fall!

We're the last generation to grow up without smartphones, and at the same time, the first teens to have their own cells.

We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.

Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion. Nobody has ever seen anything like this before.

To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for 30 days.

The industry can choose to ignore my work if they want, but my fans won't.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.