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I was like, 'I'm going to win Wimbledon!' I was crazy competitive, leg-slapping, all of that. But when I was 12, I saw 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape,' and it just opened my eyes to what movies can do and how they change us, and I was like, 'This is what I want to do. This is what I have to do.'

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

And yet sometimes he'd lie awake at night imagining Rachel telling her story to a tribunal of all the girls who'd ever rejected him, regaling them about his deceptions, the way he'd pretended to like her when he didn't, the mask of 'niceness' he wore when the truth was he was a selfish, lying piece of shit—and he saw all those girls, Anna at their center, shocked but not shocked, nodding and agreeing that yes, of course, they'd known something was wrong with him all along.

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

the church should just stay out of people's pants.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

Do not believe in the mercy of life because it turns the back without mercy.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.