I was always insecure about the way I looked.

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

It's an odd world.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying.

I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions running up bills stretching the truth bending over backwards lying down on the job sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

I always identified with that feeling of being an underdog. So I always was looking to connect with and meet people from other cultures, to experience people living a different life that I am.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.

When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us.

Life is defined by the lives you touch, and not by the mistakes you've made.

Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.