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Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.

Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

When you're a kid, Kermit is Tom Hanks. He's Tom Hanks for kids or Jimmy Stewart for kids. He's truly the every man.

I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

Shame Sucker! You suck my joy away!You suck my fun away!You suck my happiness away!Shame, you suck!

...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

Live now, die later!

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

Used every man according to his capacity.

Thinking and planning is one side of life

Only a child expects life to be just

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go

The brain is like a muscle

I've purged myself of worldly goods

Evil is relatively rare

Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon, illuminate the shadows in the sky.

It wasn’t fair, he thought — Aaron having no family and Tamara having her scary family and now Jasper. Soon, there would be no one left for him to hate without feeling bad about it.

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph

The trouble you're expecting never happens

Nope, " he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

Do I look as pretty as I feel?

Books had been her means of escape