"Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower."

“The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.”

Source : "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

“The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.”

“The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.”

“The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.”

Source : "The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.

“The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love”

“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.”

“I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life. As my career got successful and I wanted to do things for her, she wasn't able to allow them because she just didn't work that way. It was always that. It wasn't necessarily ugly, just complicated.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.”