Why Quotes

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

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.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens?

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.