To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says ‘He may be difficult, so let’s avoid him.’

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we’re all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it’s true.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

Mary Hart says she meant to stay on ‘Entertainment Tonight’ for three years. She was on for 29.

There’s no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can’t come back. So I have every right to come back.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you’re an adult now. You’re an adult, so don’t pretend you’re a kid anymore.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

I’ve got a young man who works for me who says you don’t need to discover your dreams – you need to recover them.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Anyone who says they don’t like to receive a gift is lying.

It’s ridiculous, but it’s horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn’t is lying.

I think that it won’t be long before a team calls that says, ‘Just go do what you do’.

When you grow up your mother says, ‘Wear rubbers or you’ll catch cold.’ When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch...

When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand – jeans, Coca-Cola.

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

We shouldn’t accept things just because somebody says so.

When Pixar calls and says, ‘Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?’ you don’t do a lot of contemplating!

Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it’s all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it’s all down to the Thatcher-and-after...

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word ‘intelligence,’ we think of Einstein instead of humans.

If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can’t with words, that’s a really beautiful thing.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

I’m riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says ‘trust me,’ the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn’t expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there’s a point where one says, that’s for family, that’s for me.

On ’24,’ it says on the front page of your script: ‘This script is for the production staff and cast. Please don’t show it to anybody else.’

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

As my manager says, ‘These are wonderful problems.’

But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there’s only one Savior.

The function of the killer and watching him – whatever that says about the world in which we live – it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

The only problem I’ve had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, ‘Kirk’s Wah-Wah Rug.’

If my client calls me and says, ‘I’m going to a friend’s premiere,’ I’ll say, ‘Come over and let’s do something cute.’ And I won’t bill them for that.

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you’ve been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little...

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn’t last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn’t endure, or can’t be logically proved and pinned down,...

Facebook says, ‘Privacy is theft,’ because they’re selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

I love fat people. Every fat person says it’s not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

With ‘Eagle of the Ninth,’ every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, ‘Do this!’ And I say, ‘How was it?’ and he says, ‘Good.’ It was very odd. I would never...

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it’s totally safe.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found...

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I’ve never done a box set, and Eddie’s full of it if he says otherwise.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy’s eloquence and social observation in ‘Sights and Spectacles’; she thinks in print, but she doesn’t have a real feel...