"I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip."

“It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.”

“Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.”

Source : Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

“You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.”

“I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.”

“We've [with Jack Black] probably never been in an interview where someone hasn't asked how we got together, so we thought if we put it in the movie, it'll answer the question altogether.”

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“If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.”

“I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].”

“The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.46