Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

A siege is an act of war.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The movie business is a big gamble.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Stand-up is my baby.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

War is a contagion.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

War is what happens when language fails.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

I’m a showgirl, as you can tell. I’m ever ready.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I’m all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it’s called ‚Kiss Land,‘ it’s probably going to be the most terrifying thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Everybody loved ‚The A-Team‘ because it was entertainment, pure and simple.

The secret to humor is surprise.

We make war that we may live in peace.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.