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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Nature has always had more force than education.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.