Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.

We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.

I guess I've been to the hairdressers in more than 10 different countries.

There are worse things than being mad.

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.

The universe is an intelligence test.

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life but how powerful it is you can never know until you have a baby.

Without passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were you can begin to enjoy what is.

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

I don't need a U.N. report to tell me whether my army... operates according to the international law guidelines.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.