"In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head."

“I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.”

“Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.”

Source : Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.289, Oxford University Press

“I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.”

“The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.”

“I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.”

“Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.”

“All religions are true, because they are true in the hearts of all those who believe in them. What other kind of truth is there? In the past, the church has been harsh on those it deemed morally wrong or sinful. Today, we no longer judge. Like a loving father, we never condemn our children. Our church is big enough for heterosexuals and homosexuals, for the pro-life and the pro-choice! For conservatives and liberals, even communists are welcome and have joined us. We all love and worship the same God.”