The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 2)

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

My family is very conservative.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.

Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.

It was a great experience to work with director A. L. Vijay.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

The '60s were an amazing time.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.

I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

After a storm comes a calm.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?