"Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one."

-- Lorrie Moore

“Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.”
“The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.”
“The people need to feel the music. That's what's so important, and that's what is missing. You have to let the audience feel you, you have to let them feel the love, feel the rock 'n' roll, feel the energy.”

Source : "Phil Spector, Obama fan" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2008.
“The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.”
“Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.”
“This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.”
“When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!”

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