American Quotes

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

Every market is in transition.

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.

Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots, will be filled internally.

We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system.

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.