American Quotes

Never live with someone that won the Heisman.

It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.

If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true.

I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

I'm not afraid of O.J. now.

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.