J. F. Stone Quotes

You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

I can have an androgynous quality.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

I can be strong for everybody except myself. I can tell somebody, 'Hey, keep it together', but I can't take my own advice.

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Time needs another minute.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.

I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in.

I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

The most heartbreaking things are the ones that are sometimes the truest.

If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.

At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.

Everybody says "love you" to each other all the time. It's this lovely little safe world.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.

People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.

Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.

All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper.

If you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.