It’s important for a villain to be as threatening as possible, whether physically, mentally or emotionally… however you want to do it. If you can combine all three, well, that’s the ultimate villain.

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn’t talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

It didn’t take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah...

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp – what I hear in my head I don’t always know how to play. But I...

The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it...

I can see only three planets in the entire universe, namely Heaven, Earth and Me! Heaven shines its glory on Earth and the rays keep falling on Me! I have a call!

Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it’s like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Most of us fall in love with someone’s persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I...

When I do my shows, it’s really cross-generational. Sometimes there’s three generations there.

Three thousand, it’s just a number. It’s just a game.

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I’m hoping that other knee doesn’t have to be done. It’s one of the toughest things to overcome.

You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it —...

Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the...

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.

What it takes just to earn a living – working two or three jobs – is driving a wedge in families that shouldn’t be there.

After ‘Divergent,’ I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, ‘We’re about to shoot ‘Ninja Turtles’ in three or...

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There’s merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now,...

Manhattan… capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they’re tiny or warped. But even if they’re invisible, they...

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

I find myself changing my entire lifestyle every three years or so, and I’m comfortable in being an outsider. I have grown up like that.

Let’s hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

I always say, ‘I really need to take a break.’ It’s three days in and I’m getting pretty bored.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most...

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in ’48, and Ella in ’52.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you’re cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize...

As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it’s hard sometimes as a new...

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they’d say that much less now.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Badminton in Beijing is huge – it’s one of their top three sports.

The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say...

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing...

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.

In the Negro Leagues, we’d play three games a day on the weekends. Then we’d ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You’d hang your shirt out the bus window...

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this...

Everything feels like you’re in slow motion and everything you do seems like it’s about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.

I’ve been on the road I think probably three years.

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn’t fit in.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn’t have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, ‘You should try stand-up,’ and took me to a...

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

I’m a big fan of power trios where there’s only three instruments.

That’s great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you’d want to spend more than three hours in.