Quotes About Author

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.

The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.

I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.

That's it," she said, balling her hands in fists. "I'm not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.

For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.

It's the kind of sage wisdom coming from a guy who was 25 at the time, but already had 20 years of experience. Kurt Russell is a wonderful actor and a great guy.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.