And Quotes

I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family. I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna feel that again

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

I just loved and love life. I love it today.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.

If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is one documentary you won't want to miss.

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Whatever your struggle, my brothers and sisters-mental or emotional or physical or otherwise-do not vote against the preciousness of life by ending it!

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

Jumping up and down is definitely sexy," Vayl assured me. "Would you like to do it two or three times right now before we get down to business?" Sterling and Cole groaned at the same time "Ewww!

I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

You totally value and respect your body as you get older.

Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?