The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I am fearless.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

If you can talk, you can write.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

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.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

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

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I can move any crowd.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

The good is the beautiful.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

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

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.