When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Hollywood is something imagined ...acting is something crafted.

How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.