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You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.

The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.