American Quotes

I know how deeply slothful I am.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

I am married to someone I love.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

Writing is the beast unto itself.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

We were all Romans once, I guess.

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

The world is as it should be.

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

I've never taken myself too seriously.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.