American Quotes

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

I am not a good cue card reader.

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

I trained myself to be organized.

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.

I finish what I have to do in the office.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.