I've often thought that we left the original 'Phantom' with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, 'Well, why not to do a sequel to it' at one point.
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they come from, who they are and where they're going, and what it means to be alive on the planet.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.
I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.
It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And then we threw it on our record as well.
Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about.
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
