William Faulkner Quotes
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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Great dangers give birth to great resolutions.
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I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it's been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate.
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I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.
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In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.
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My stage show is raw and unpredictable.
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People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
