Why Quotes

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.