I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

You really want to try to continue to pile up outs as often as you possibly can. Whether they get a hit or not really doesn't affect the way you continue to approach that lineup, especially with a five-run lead.

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

If a Jazz musician plays someone else's song, he has a responsibility to make a distinct & original statement.

I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens.

I would never say no to comedy.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

I tell you how I feel and how we're going to solve it. That's my unique personality and that's how I carry myself. It is different from most people, but when something comes out of your mouth, people tend to listen more.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you.

Thinking of you is easy; I do it every day. Missing you is the heartache that never goes away.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

I love hats. I've always loved hats.

A good manager is a man who isnt worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.