"Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses."

“It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.”

“I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.”

Source : "John Chamberlain, sculptor who used crushed-up cars, dies" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2011.

“The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.”

“The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.”

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

“I've done a nude scene and I felt it was appropriate to the storyline and I thought it was done in a respectful way and I felt comfortable doing it. But there are obviously going to be scenarios - not necessarily in this job, but in other jobs to come - where the question will be posed to me 'Will I want to do nude scenes?' and I would have to consider that as its own thing. And not just something to say yes to because I have done so before. It really is circumstantial.”

“Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We have to elevate our emotions to the maximum, to the limit, and that then turns into spiritual bliss.”

“Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.”