Mark Hamill Quotes
I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.
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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
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Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
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I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
