I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Seeing is not always believing.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‚I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,‘ and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

We are what we believe we are.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. 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.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‚Happy Feet‘ to ‚Little Face.‘

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn’t have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he’s getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I’m an atheist.

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

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

I don’t easily fall for lies, I can see through things.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.