Very Quotes

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.