We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

Only fools are positive.

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple.

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

I certainly like working in Germany.

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

My mom has been my support system from day one. Admiring the type of person she is gives me a sense of what to look for in my ideal cheerleader when the time comes.

I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.

I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

I have to have breakfast, and breakfast has to be eggs!

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, As doctors cure by letting blood.

With the acquisition of 50% of Todito, TV Azteca is getting on a very fast train. Todito will allow TV Azteca to create value for its shareholders and promote its television content on the Internet.

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.