"I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in."

“I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take ***** criticism.”

“The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.”

Source : "NASA rover wakes up on Mars" By Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2004.

“Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?”

“The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.”

“Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

“I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.”

“Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do not happen with a naked brain going out and encountering a nonhuman world. And the better we understand ourselves, the better we can do science, as well. So I don't see them - the sciences and the humanities - as being at all different.”

“The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?”

Source : "MUSIC: David vs. Davy?". Interview with Ben Johnson, www.silive.com. September 13, 2008.