When you’re in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what’s interesting to you isn’t necessarily interesting to a reader.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it’s difficult to know when that’s...

The funny thing is, I’m so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things… I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn’t.

I didn’t jump onto anyone else’s coattail and ride their wave.

I’ve been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don’t think I’ve ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I’ve ever hit.

I’m no hero. Heroes don’t come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I’m a hero, I’m not.

I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That’s not the type of player I am.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone.

Certainly I’m always willing to talk to anyone who’s interested in talking to me!

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

I couldn’t bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their...

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality...

Israel is the agent and surrogate of the United States and as such is treated entirely differently from every other country in the region. How can anyone expect Iran to accept that it is right...

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but...

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.

Anyone who says, ‘Books don’t change anything,’ or – more commonly – that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change – should take a closer look.

I don’t see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they’re there and anyone can photograph them if they’re prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

If waterboarding’s OK, why don’t we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims… Have we waterboarded anyone else?

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn’t know it existed. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

The thing is I’m very interested in bad taste, as anyone who’s ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don’t think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they’re doing evil stuff. That’s the scary part.

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn’t anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn’t posted at all.

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more ‘dates’ than me.

I do enjoy fashion – a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Anyone can spin a victory, it’s a total loss that demands creativity