You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

I put ordinary people in jeopardy and give them the opportunity to be heroic. Then there's a great payoff for the reader at the end, when the heroic character gets what he or she deserves. Readers will come back again and again if they feel satisfied at the end.

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.

I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.

The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.

I want to see us add more dollars to the classroom.

The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God's redemption to the world.

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS.

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each others hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.