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Quotes by Actor
"The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
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"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."
16
"Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street."
16
"Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio."
16
"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
15
"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."
15
"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."
15
"I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters."
15
"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."
15
"I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM."
15
"If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street."
14
"The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older."
14
"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
14
"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."
14
"What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name."
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"I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences."
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"I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character."
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"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
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"Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you."
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"I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference."
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"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
12
"An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh."
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