- “If Harry Potter’s so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldn’t need a broomstick to cling onto.” – Frankie Boyle
- “Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who’ll think he’s Tiger Woods.” – Frankie Boyle
- “A vasectomy means never having to say you’re sorry.” – Unknown
- “It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job: it’s a depression when you lose yours.” – Harry S. Truman
- “Scientists say because of global warming they expect the world’s oceans to rise four and a half feet. The scientists say this can mean only one thing – Gary Coleman is going to drown.” – Conan O’Brien
- “Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”
- “I’d rather let the music speak for itself.”
- “I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.”
- “It’s probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.”
- “People think our music’s very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it’s just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.”
- “Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.”
- “The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.”
- “We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”
- “Am I a romantic? I’ve seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I’m a romantic.”
- “Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
- “As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
- “France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”
- “How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”
- “I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
- “I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”
- “I guess I’m attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
- “I may have a feather duster down my pants.”
- “I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
- “I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.”
- “I think everybody’s nuts.”
- “I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”
- “I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”
- “I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”
- “I’m not sure I’m adult yet.”
- “I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
- “If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”
- “If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”
- “It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.”
- “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
- “A jug fills drop by drop.”
- “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
- “All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
- “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
- “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
- “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
- “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
- “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
- “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
- “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
- “Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”
- “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
- “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
- “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
- “He is able who thinks he is able.”
- “He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”
- “Everyting negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
- “I dont want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”
- “I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”
- “I’m chasing perfection.”
- “My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.”
- “There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.”
- “These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”
- “I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
- “I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”
- “I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my ‘Will Smith’ thing and get paid.”
- “I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.”
- “If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.”
- “In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.”
- “It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can’t imagine what else I could do beyond this. It’s really a bittersweet kind of feeling.”
- “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
- “My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.”
- “On learning to swim: I’m too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say «Now kick your feet.»”
- “There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?”
- “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
- “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
- “Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.”
- “You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.”
- “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson
- “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
- “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker
- “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker
- “That guitar is okay but you’ll never make a living with it” – John’s Aunt Mimi
- “What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.” – John Lennon
- “We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic.” – Ringo Starr
- “When you’re drowning, you don’t say «I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me», you just scream.” – John Lennon, 1970
- “I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.” – Paul McCartney, 1969
- “I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.” – George Harrison, 1969
- “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one” – The Catcher in the Rye
- “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” - John Lennon
- “We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?” – John Lennon
- “I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, «You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly»” – George Harrison
- “I am not the Beatles. I’m me.Paul isn’t the Beatles…The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.” – John Lennon
- “The things is, we’re all really the same person. We’re just four parts of the one.” – Paul McCartney
- “John had his thing, and Paul had his, and together there were two different things all together. But they fit.” – Billy Preston
- “When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care.” – John Lennon
“As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.” – George Harrison
- “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.” – John Lennon in a 1966 interview
- “I’m not saying we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.” – John Lennon
- “There’s a lot of random in our songs…writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you’ve the jigsaw puzzle.” – Paul McCartney
- “Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow” – John Lennon
- “If you don’t ask me out to dinner, I don’t eat”
- “Just cause you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s there.”
- “A heart that’s full up like a landfill and a job that slowly kills you.”
- “May pretty horses come to you as you sleep”
- “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”
- “I Want None Of This”
- “How You See The World No. 2.”
- “If I could be who you wanted all the time.”
- “I keep falling over, I keep passing out when I see a face like you.”
- “I’ll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches, and nothing.”
- “I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.” – Walt Disney
- “In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol
- “My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.” – Andy Warhol
- “I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is «In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.»” – Andy Warhol
- “I didn’t know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he’d be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him.” – Norman Rockwell
- “Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.” – Orson Welles
- “Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.” – Bill O’Reilly
- “What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.” – Voltaire
- “The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I’m going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.” – John McCain
- “Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.” – Marilyn vos Savant
- “A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.” – P. J. O’Rourke
- “When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.” – Katharine Hepburn
- “I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.” – Stephen Colbert
- “When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was You’re a Big Boy Now.” – Francis Ford Coppola
- “We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.” – Jerry Lewis
- “Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.” – Kevin Bacon
- “Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.” – Jeff Foxworthy