"There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those."

“The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.”

“you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.”

“You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.”

“I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.”

“Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.”

“Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.”

Source : "Director Henry Selick Comic-Con Interview – Talks CORALINE and Next Project". Collider Interview, collider.com. July 25, 2009.

“My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.”