Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

Carla Gugino

I never wanted to be famous.

Dave Attell

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.

Bill Berry

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

Edward Bond

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

Avril Lavigne

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.

Thomas Traherne

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Sean Parker

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

Todd Phillips

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

Christopher Hitchens

Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Gracie Allen