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There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends. I was coming off a bad injury, but my roommate insisted I get out of the house and be around people. God love our friends; we've been together 20 years now!

You're much better off to buy fresh fish from a market as opposed to buying something that's been frozen and processed and covered in breadcrumbs.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.