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I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.