During the rests - pray.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I can conduct better than I count.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

There is a shadow on every page.

It's hot as hell as can be.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

During the rests - pray.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

I've always been very passionate about acting. I appeared in panto in the Everyman from the age of five.

I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.

I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.

I'm a lifetime member of the NRA.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.