When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
I wanted people to know that I'm human, and I'm only successful because I've learned the hard way. I've been in so many dark places, but I got myself out.
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.
Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
You know what actors are like. You can sometimes be like, 'Darling, darling, we love each other,' but you don't really know them.
We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided.
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.
I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.
I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.
Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.
