The similarity between the big directors I’ve worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying ‘do it this way.’ They describe what they...

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

I’m saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

I’ve been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: ‘Oh, it’s not poisonous…’ Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

I’m just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won’t be any more touring.

I’m a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it’s frivolous or superficial, but it’s not that way at all. It’s actually very hard work.

I’m saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

Back in the day, in ’91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, ‘We’ll do the...

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20’s, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one’s imagination.

It’s been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had...

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

There’s a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I’m trying to ask, and I’m...

In the astronaut business – the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it’s the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, ‘There is no problem...

I have a saying – ‘You treat me good, I’ll treat you better. You treat me bad, I’ll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock ’em out.’

I think that when you’re kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you’re facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden,...

I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ‘Why are we doing this? Why don’t the Hawaiians have control?’ ‘Well, we have no mechanism to do it,’ I was told.

How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it’s at that point, I think, historically, that you start to see...

Liberal democracy – as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today’s left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and...

An intelligent enemy,’ he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, ‘rather than a foolish friend.’ Or, ‘He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.’ Or, the favourite...

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they’re saying and how they say it.

None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I’m...

So, we’re saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable...

Loveis not leaning on each other, adjusting to fit a different size.Loveis simply two hands reached out in the darkness,saying; I’ll be your light, if you’ll be mine.

Here’s something I probably shouldn’t be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can’t stand it. It’s just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I’m saying this will probably be my last tour. That’s truly the way I’m looking at it.

Ah, the pleasure, the joy – a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying ‘it’ll never happen’, only to be confirmed by the Home...

I don’t believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set...

I’m cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I’m where...

I really don’t want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I’m saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the...

Who would have ever thought that I’d end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that’s what I want to be.

When you make a bet, you’re saying something.

Our party is – we don’t have the problems that the other party has. We’re not divided. We don’t have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their...

I’m still trying to figure out the secret relationship between the woman and the mall!

Everybody saying you can’t do this, you can’t do that. I don’t know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.

There’s so much corruption in America; there’s so much corruption around the world. It’s all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, ‘We don’t like...

It was a show that you played at home and you’re saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you’ve...

I’ve done a lot of acting. I’m not saying I’m the greatest, but I’d love to act, I’d love to sing.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That’s not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it’s possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the...

The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, ‘That guy can write a story.’ It’s prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It’s very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here’s...

People wanna say that they’re part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We’re raised to believe that there’s something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I’m saying I...