American Quotes

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.