Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.

To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.

If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good.

You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.

I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it. Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page going in.

One must not cheat anybody not even the world of ones triumph.

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

I believe in the dignity of labor whether with head or hand that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'