Let's just say it was damn hard [to make the Hangover]. I've got the bumps and bruises to show for it. It's funny because things that don't even look that bad on screen were still extremely painful.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Haters will unwittingly give you the inspiration you need to conquer your great obstacle of destiny if you did not give up

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

Where there is great love, there are always happiness and joy.

Too big, too empty, too heartbreaking . . . Too much to cope with

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.

Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.