The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's more important for me, honestly, that the guy who gets dragged to the show, you know, looks at his wife and says, thank you, that was great and tells his buddies.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

I don't define anything I eat as a vice.

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space.

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.

Lawmakers have good reason to want a healthy broadcast industry. Broadcast TV stations provide more than 186,000 jobs on an annual basis, which directly generate more than $30 billion in economic activity.

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

Everything I know about makeup, I've learned from my sister.

The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!

Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.