John Quotes

I like anybody who does any kind of construction.

I am a lady young in beauty waiting Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss.

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.

Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.

I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.

Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

What was I elected for? ... This is a matter of core principle.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

We've got to force the Democrats to get a spine. If they don't want to have a spine, we should throw them out. If they don't want to stand up for the rule of law, then I'm not a Democrat.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.

Once upon a time there was no Time.

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks