Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Life is like an analogy.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

No one pays me to be nice.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

I don't even think of it as a strategy. It's me in my element; it's my forte. Me being with all the mandem on the ends, spitting to an old school grime riddim, is me in my element; that's when I feel I'm at my best.

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

I am now conquering my fears one at a time.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.

I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.

What we value determines what we do.

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.