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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.