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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.