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I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.