American Quotes

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

I love what I do and I love the fans.

I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.

When you're leading, don't talk.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.