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As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

I just worry because I know I say a lot, often. It doesn't bother me, it's more about the people that get affected around me.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.

I am really cautious about what I say and do.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am"

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want.