Very Quotes

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

I like to cook things very slowly.

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I'm not a very dark person.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

I've always felt very English.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

America has been very, very good to me.