Very Quotes

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

My job is intense. It's very physical.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.