"Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring."

"What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job."

"Strong brows give me character."

"I'm on time even when I try not to be."

"I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it."

"I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'"

"I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people."

"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."

"Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality."

"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

"Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty."

"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation."

"As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination."

"It shows how dangerous it is to be too good"

"Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels."

"I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet."

"We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind."

"The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are."

"To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation."

"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back."

"Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves."