I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I’m here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, ‚Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators. We’re also inventors. We’re also thoughtful.‘

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I can resist everything except temptation.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Words are loaded pistols.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

A witty saying proves nothing.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

There is no wealth but life.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Nature is not human hearted.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.