“When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex. It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.”
“There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.”
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
“Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and three dollar pantyhose that won’t run.”
“I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.”
“I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.”
“You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don’t even know who The Who is. It’s like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C’mon. Where are the roots?”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.”
“Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.”
“You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull… When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire. “
“My name is more important than myself.”
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
“I have opinions of my own –strong opinions– but I don’t always agree with them.”
George H. W. Bush
“He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.”
“Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?”
“We are all voyeurs to one degree or another, including me, but with fame comes the predatory prowl of a carrion press that has an insatiable appetite for salaciousness and abhors being denied access to anyone, from pimps to presidents (a journey that becomes shorter every year), and, confused and resentful because it can’t get what it wants, resorts to inventing stories about you because it is part of a culture whose most pressing moral imperative is that anything is acceptable if it makes money.”
“In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.”
“What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it’s just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.”
“What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.”
“An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.”
“I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I experience and I understand.”
“If you don’t get noticed, you don’t have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.”
“If you don’t get noticed, you don’t have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.”
“It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people.”
“I like sports, I enjoy anything to do with the ocean, I like surfing, sailing, I like to play tennis.”
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.”
“You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”
William S. Burroughs
“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet.”
“Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.”
“You’ve always got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”
“We are taught to consume. And that’s what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it’s just a mind set, that it’s just an addiction, then we wouldn’t be out there stepping on people’s hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.”
