I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

You can be happy where you are.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.