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I got a big mouth.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

You've got to embrace what you don't know.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.