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"So this guy goes into the dining hall and this is the first week after the attack and there is just this sombre sadness and you hear the guy go, 'guys, guys, you're not gonna believe whose been cooking your dinners. It's Batman!"

"[Politics]...is Hollywood for ugly people."

"Ten years is a long time to be a part of anything and to have a group of people in your life for any reason, let alone one that really was a part of my most formative years."

"We have what you call a three fold marriage. You make a triangle with your hands and you can see Jesus is at the top and we're below. That's pretty solid. You're a threefold covenant. There's three people in this marriage. We've been through some difficult things physically but we're still here, stronger than ever and living for the Lord."

"If you can laugh every day, you can get healthy. You get those endorphins going in the body, God’s been looking out for me. I enjoy every day."

"Mickey Rourke, I love. He fucked his shit up. His face looks like a distorted mess. Off the record, he blew his whole shit. He could have been the king of the world and he wound-up doing boxing in Mexico. And after that all we see is the shit. That was a real man. Now — tell me a real man right now? Who is working in our day and age that’s a real man?"

"I’m an alpha male, what else can I say?"

"Orlando Bloom is a hermaphrodite."

"And women, you know... Women want a man. That’s what I envision. Who the hell wants to walk around with someone that’s prettier than you if you’re a woman?"

"His subtleties. He acts with his eyes, that’s it. He’s very subtle. He’s sexy. He’s a man. He does of all his own stunts. He’s the epitome of a man. You see, in Hollywood we’ve lost the real man. They’re gone. They’re so pretty."

"I don’t want to be prettier than the woman I’m walking with. I want people to look at me and say, ‘Now there’s a guy that can go under a (inappropriate) car and fix the transmission, and ride a horse, and take out a motorcycle. And when you’re with him, you feel like he’s a man.’ Right now what I feel like in Hollywood is they’re so pretty and dainty and metro that it’s repulsive to me."

"I’m trying to bring the real man back to Hollywood. Steve McQueen — that whole thing. There hasn’t been that for a long time. A real man is what every man wants to be and every woman wants to (have sex with). A real man is not somebody who has to play a real man; he just is a real man."

"He’s one of my best friends. I met him on Tears of the Sun. Basically, we’re cut from the same mold. He took me into his camp. He invited me into his family. I’m almost overwhelmed with the fact he embraced me the way he did. But basically we’re the same guy. I’m him ten years before and a lot poorer."

"If I was drunk and I turned Brad Pitt around, I might fuck him."

"He’s an asshole. Russell Crowe is a prick bastard to work with."

"I swear he’s got a pussy, either that or he’s a hermaphrodite. It’s one of the two. And he’s, like, the big thing."

"I’m not trying to (inappropriate) on Vin Diesel, but if that’s what we got now for real men, we got problems."

"But I do see you today. And I’m encouraged by what I see. I’m strengthened by what I see. I love what I see."

"I wasn't put on this earth to act. I was put on this earth to share and to be an example of the power and wisdom and grace and mercy of God in my life."

"If you don’t love your fellow man, women, person, then you don’t have anything."

"I actually kissed a man in the film, but they took it out, they cut it. I think they got chicken."

"I'm an actor, not a politician. I don't represent a race. I don't represent any group. I just represent the character I'm playing at the time."

"Obviously, the Kennedys were, to us, what Obama is to the African-American culture. Huge."

"It’s the guy who gets the part who’s thought of as being the best actor"

"What the hell do you boys think that this here is, fucking Fairyland? Pulling on your wee-wees like a pack of fucking fruits?"

"Let us remember these timeless words: Ass♂we♂can."

"You got me mad now"

"I want to tell all my fans at Nico Nico to live their life without any judgments, and be adventurous. When opportunity comes, put work into your faith, and don't be afraid to go out and live life. Whatever your sexuality is - gay, straight, boy, girl - go have fun. That's what life is all about. And live a life of yugamineena."

"Yeah, it certainly is cum alright, at least it smells like it."

"I think that the biggest thing I've learned in terms of pursuing careers is that the things that you're most embarrassed about yourself, the things that you feel like are ugly, the things that you really have a hard time with about yourself, are probably the things that are most beautiful about you and they should be embraced and shared with the world."

"I'm a bit of a punk in my essence and in my core. I'm a bit of an artist and a trickster and, you know, I believe in sort of tearing up the status quo for what people expect you to do."

"Maybe it’s because I’m older now, but there was something about the Seventies and Eighties. It was ‘the magic of the movies’. You would go to the cinema and have this magical, transportive experience, all because of the amount of love in the movies themselves. Particularly with those Indiana Jones movies, and almost everything Spielberg did, you could feel the passion behind the stories. Blockbusters nowadays have gotten a little corporate. A little jaded and cynical with their audiences. That amateur feel – for creating a magical experience – that’s something I want to see in my art."

"That light that begins to die is so sad to watch. I think at 15, you can still live the dream a little bit, right? [Graduate and] be broke and go live in New York or wherever and try and be an artist — if you're in it for the right reasons."

"I just got on Twitter a couple years ago but I never really used it because nobody followed me and then the show came out and it became an onslaught and I got addicted. … I read tweets, fan art and fan fiction [while recovering from surgery] about Hopper and Joyce (Winona Ryder). I love the passion of the fans. I’ll read it all day — Hopper-Joyce making out. I’ll read it."

"I've had groups of twentysomethings saying they still talk to each other in SpongeBob memes. It's really touching, you know? You get people who have had very difficult lives, and they say that SpongeBob got them through things, which is very touching. Someone told us that they were considering suicide, and SpongeBob made them laugh, and they cycled through that phase of their life. You get everything from that, to I had a great happy childhood and SpongeBob was part of it. You get all colours of the spectrum in terms of people coming up. Not just with SpongeBob either. It may be some cartoon that was a failure, or a videogame that took an hour to record in 1996. But they say it was the biggest thing in their life at one point. It's mind-blowing. You don't realize the footprint of what you're doing is leaving behind."

"It’s something very few actors really get to experience. When you’re a character actor or voiceover guy, it’s job to job. You’re like a migrant worker, almost. The longevity [of “SpongeBob”] is an unbelievable statistical anomaly. It’s like, I didn’t buy that many lottery tickets and I won the lottery. It’s a totally random, harmonic convergence of people you met and your agent getting you an audition. Actors have so little control over their own lives; it’s nice to have something you’re not in control of that’s actually positive. There was a point when “SpongeBob” was cancelled after the first few seasons and the first movie. We went to a wrap party that I thought was the season wrap party but was the series wrap party. Nobody knew. So I already feel like I dodged a bullet."

"Not every poet is a great reader of his own work."

"Language has an incantory power. The source qualities of language go to the very roots of our experience of poetry."

"The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else."

"I truly think you can say that without Michael O’Donoghue, there wouldn't have been a Saturday Night Live, and I think it’s important to remember that. I think Lorne would probably be generous enough to acknowledge that."

"I’ve seen this attributed to John Lennon, but I know Michael O’Donoghue said it, because I was there when we heard Elvis died. My secretary came in and she said, “Elvis is dead,” and Michael O’Donoghue said, “Good career move.”"

"Late April, early May, Lorne started laying out the cast. One day he’s got this really bizarre guy with smoked glasses, Michael O'Donoghue, and I’m thinking, “Oh God, what have we gotten into here?”"

"Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-A-Roni aside."

"After a number of meetings, including one at the show’s, barren office space at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, [Lorne] Michaels asked O’Donoghue and Beatts to join Saturday Night. At first Beatts refused, citing her book deal and the amount of work that was needed to finish it on deadline [...] O’Donoghue, on the other hand, offered no resistance: He needed the work and he saw television as a step above the drudgery of magazines. After all, he had always been attracted to “hotter” forms and was in no way contemptuous of show business — so long as he could make it his own."

"The key to a successful restaurant is dressing girls in degrading clothes."

"When Michael O’Donoghue got fired, he left this amazing note: “I was fired by Dick Ebersol. I did not leave the show, and if he should claim otherwise, he is, to steal a phrase from Louisa May Alcott, a lying cunt.” It’s very Michael."

"I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines."

"Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy."

"Any time a whole bunch of kids like something, they find a reason to ban it. If kids suddenly started stuffing napkins into their pockets and really liked doing that, they'd find a reason to forbid it."

"Democrats of the seventies and eighties are too tolerant, too open-minded, not feral enough. I want to be a ferocious liberal."