Quite Quotes

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

All art is quite useless.

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.