I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

I have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem.

We want these movies to be timeless, and we want people to really engage with the characters and find something that they can really relate to and emotionally connect with.

It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then.

Each Disney princess is unique in their own way, but Moana is especially close to my heart because she's Polynesian.

I think I'm the same dancer everywhere. But I've learned a lot with Bolshoi - the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.

My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level - an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

The public is never wrong.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket.

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.