Anthony Quotes

The reward is in the doing of it.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

I don't have a type, really. But I've always been more attracted to girls who yell fire.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Every year I volunteer at a hospital on Thanksgiving, deep-frying turkeys in the children's burn unit. I do it just to see the looks on their little "faces."

I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something.

I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

Love is the secret password to every soul.

Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman.

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

People pay to see blood, they pay to see war and that's why people are supporting my journey because I deliver every time I step in the ring.