Actor Quotes

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

I love awards, especially if I get them.

Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work.

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

Wonders will never cease.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.