I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven.

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.