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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

I can't tell anyone to vote.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.