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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.