"I have a vision in my hand that the labels have these vaults, like Scrooge McDuck, except instead of gold coins they have these demo CDs, and sometimes they just go in there and take a swim."

“I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.”

“Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.”

“America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.”

“Grace changes us and change is painful".”

“If I try to figure out what people want and give it to them, it's a failure. If I try to please people and figure out what's going to get me from point A to point B, I fail. But I think if I do what I want to do, in the long run, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point, I think it'll pay off and it'll at least feel honest.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

“I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. March 18, 2011.

“We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."”