People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I’m filthy rich!

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

Money often costs too much.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.