And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

Adele shattered the image of how the stereotypical singer is supposed to look. She has that whole 'Screw you, I'm awesome for what I do' attitude, which I really look up to and want to be a part of.

We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.

The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down everything falls down on you.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

A vacation is like love anticipated with pleasure experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

My role model is Sly Stallone.

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.

People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down.

Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body. Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'

Nothing ruins the flow of conversation more quickly than refusing a compliment you have just received. Never disagree with something nice that is said to you or about you.

I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.