Some Quotes

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world!

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.

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.

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.