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I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I'm going to work every single day, I don't think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.