American Quotes

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

I know many great actors who have small heads.

I just never fantasized about Mr. Rogers, but I like his whole vibe.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

We believe that rape is rape. We believe that a woman should make health care decisions with her family, her doctor, and her God. And we believe that there's no place in that room for politicians - especially politicians who don't know how women's bodies work.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect Pres

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.