I am a misanthropic humanist. . . Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.
I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.
I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.
There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.
I can't imagine myself blowing up supermarkets!
Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.
When I first started out, I said to myself, if this doesn't happen there will be something else that I can do. That seemed possible because I knew how to do so many different kinds of jobs.
Hitler will live forever; and maybe I will.
Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.