My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

I like playing the villain.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.

Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices.

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost.

You cant buy HAPPINESS but you can buy BEER. And thats pretty much the same thing

Blue jean baby LA lady seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed pirate smile youll marry a music man. Ballerina you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

Indian cinema needs all ingredients like emotion, action, sentiment and humour; it's not easy. It's easy to make a Hollywood film, as it goes with a pattern. Our cinema needs a lot of commercial ingredients. That's why I don't do many films.

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.

Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.

A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century.

It's going to be a long series so you just have to keep going after every loss you take. Every night is a different story.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.