An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs, " then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

The goal for me is to have one track just flow into the next one and you can just get lost in it. I try to find that fluidity.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.