I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

My success is not who I am.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Visionary CEOs are not 'just' great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model: they are also world-class innovators.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they decided to make actors out of their children. You need your parents' support if you're going to do it. Otherwise who's going to ferry you to castings?

Say NO to the demands of the world. Say YES to the longings of your own heart.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

Im a country boy who hasnt really been exposed to city living and it throws me.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn't something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

I'm on the university board in Limerick, so I visit the city often.

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.