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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.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.

I'm not really a girlie. I can be once in a while, but then I tend to fall off the heels.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.