"I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career."

“Rhythm is everything in boxing...”

“Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.”

Source : "Interview with Vamps Director Amy Heckerling". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2012.

“Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.”

“I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.”

Source : "Comedian Flip Wilson Dies at 64". Associated Press, quoting the 1971 year interview, www.bobbydarin.net. November 25, 1998.

“I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.”

“It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other people started pretending they were me! One of them actually got married while pretending he was me! My face became publicly recognizable soon after I decided to have a few photographs of me available in public to prevent these sorts of identity thefts. It is really pathetic, if you think of it. Filmmakers and filmmaking is so popular in Iran because all other forms of expression have been denied to people.”

“The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.”

Source : Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great About Christianity”, p.77, Regnery Publishing

“The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.”