Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

Thats why they call it work because its not what youd prefer to do with your free time.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.