American Quotes

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

I have a great life and I'm super active.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

You can't be a victim and heal.

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

I totally love being on camera.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

I'm hardly a saint.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.