Am Quotes

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I am pretty self-indulgent.

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.