Am Quotes

I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

I am better than my reputation.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I am against the Islamisation of France.

What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.