J.R. Stewart Quotes

Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.

I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

Alright guys, I want to get out there and vote tomorrow. And not because it's cool, because it's not. You know what is cool? Smoking. Smoke while you vote.

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would make very pleasant children.

Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.

I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.

We are, if anything - I do believe we function as a sort of editorial cartoon. That we are a digestive process, like so many other digestive processes that go on.

I don't have a sort of Amway-esque chart up on my refrigerator or anything.

But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

I never expected that this would be my life.

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

I've never done a film that I'm proud of.

I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

I quit my job at the helium gas factory. I didn't like being spoken to in that voice.

What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It's a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It's just a few Jews walking around going, "sup?"

If you like yourself, other people will like you

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

The first cut is the deepest.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.