"I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles."

“Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.”

“Why, I make more money than-than-than Calvin Coolidge, put together!”

Source : "Fictional character: Lina Lamont". "Singin' in the Rain", www.imdb.com. 1952.

“I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.”

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

“My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting, and working around the house?”

“But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent" by Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

“Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius (Book 6 "The Cynics", Chapter "Diogenes", No. LXIV), circa 200 AD.

“I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.”

“Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.”