People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

When a family film is done well, there’s a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don’t eat them.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Hunger is the best pickle.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.

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

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.