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"I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups."

"I love raccoons. I had a raccoon figurine collection as a kid, and I now have two movies with 'Ranger Rick' jokes in them. I love 'em. They come in my backyard all the time, and we just stare at each other like a couple of idiots."

"Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind."

"Each story should be enjoyed on its own merits, without relying on its connection to a larger universe, adding that shared universes should enhance individual stories, not the other way around."

"The Flash resets many things, not all things. Some characters remain the same, some do not ."

"I like Jason Statham movies, like The Transporter or whatever. I watch them all the time when they come on TV. Then I saw 'Crank,' and I couldn't believe how awesome it was."

"Gabriel is an amazing kid. To play someone who is a dolt, you have to be smart."

"For me personally, I went through a lot of stuff as a kid, so I had to mature pretty quickly, but it’s an ambiguous term. I know people who are still children, and I think it’s awesome. I’m all for staying a kid, just because you get older doesn’t mean you have to lose innocence and the way you look at life, it just means you have to do taxes as well as have that imagination. I feel no one should lose that just because they turn 18 or turn 21. You should always pursue your dreams, regardless of your age. I feel like ‘coming of age’ refers more to going to school and picking a job, but people force pressure on themselves. You might have your parents telling you what to do, but at the end of the day it’s your choice."

"I think if I have any regret at all about my theatrical career, it was that I didn’t stay longer in the theater. It was very hard to do because the transportation problem was quite serious. It took thirty-five hours to fly out. So you couldn’t really commute to the movie business the way you can do in London. But I wanted to be in movies, because I loved movies. I was a big movie fan. And still am and always have been."

"In a world where slaughter and vicious crimes are daily occurrences, a good ghoulish movie is comic relief."

"The best parts are the heavies. The hero is usually someone who has really nothing to do. He comes out on top, but it's the heavy who has all the fun."

"... the hero is usually a very dull, straightforward guy. He's got to be good."

"Acting, no matter what they say, is the same kind of art as a or a ist. We are interpretive artists, we interpret the ; the major thing is the script, the . And we are as good as the scriptwriters. A certain couple of movies I’ve done, like , really hold up and are as fresh today as they were 35 years ago, because the script was so good. Laura happened to be a classic movie because it was well made, well cast, and the . That’s the kind of thing one longs to do. One doesn’t get that many of them."

"Is there a better way to die than ... to be watching a movie and then just drop dead? ... with all over you ..."

"Pray, speak quietly, every sound you make is such exquisite agony to me."

"Foxx was really the king of comedy and timing. He had one of the fastest comedic minds on the planet."

"If you can see the handwriting on the wall … you're on the toilet."

"Love. Hygiene. That's the important thing. Hygiene. The toughest thing in the world: [you] have to turn to your mate one night and say: "You gotta wash your ass!" Shit. Knowing how difficult it is, I said it for you : You Gotta Wash Your Ass."

"My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried."

"We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with."

"Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved."

"Redd Foxx had grown-up jokes. … You ain't never heard no Redd Foxx stand-up. Hell, you still watchin' Sanford & Son reruns."

"Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily — but I don't think any two people see the same movie."

"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."

"Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved."

"I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet. One of the tragedies is that the very folks in the black community who are most sophisticated in terms of the political realities in this country are nonetheless advocates of “soul food.” They will lay down a heavy rap on genocide in America with regard to black folks, then walk into a soul food restaurant and help the genocide along."

"The philosophy of nonviolence, which I learned from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during my involvement in the civil rights movement was first responsible for my change in diet. I became a vegetarian in 1965. … Under the leadership of Dr. King I became totally committed to nonviolence, and I was convinced that nonviolence meant opposition to killing in any form. I felt the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” applied to human beings not only in their dealings with each other—war, lynching, assassination, murder and the like—but in their practice of killing animals for food or sport. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and brutal taking of life."

"Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: “We don’t serve colored people here.” I said: “That’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”"

"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps."

"I have experienced personally over the past few years how a purity of diet and thought are interrelated. And when Americans become truly concerned with the purity of the food that enters their own personal systems, when they learn to eat properly, we can expect to see profound changes effected in the social and political system of this nation. The two systems are inseparable."

"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."

"As Dick Gregory has said, any other group of people in the world who would take arms and rise up against the tyranny of their government would be hailed as "Freedom Fighters." But Negroes are expected to adhere to nonviolence."

"On October 5, Dick Gregory came to Selma. His wife, Lillian, had been jailed in Selma while demonstrating. He spoke to a crowded church meeting that evening. It was an incredible performance. With armed deputies ringing the church outside, and three local officials sitting in the audience taking notes, Gregory lashed out at white Southern society with a steely wit and a passion that sent his Negro listeners into delighted applause again and again. Never in the history of this area had a black man stood like this on a public platform, ridiculing and denouncing white officials to their faces. It was a historic coming of age for Selma, Alabama. It was also something of a miracle that Gregory was able to leave town alive. The local newspaper said that a "wildly applauding crowd" listened that night to "the most scathing attack unleashed here in current racial demonstrations." Gregory told the audience that the Southern white man had nothing he could call his own, no real identity, except "segregated drinking fountains, segregated toilets, and the right to call me nigger." He added, "And when the white man is threatened with losing his toilet, he's ready to kill!" He wished, Gregory said, that the whole Negro race would disappear overnight. "They would go crazy looking for us!" The crowd roared and applauded. Gregory lowered his voice, and he was suddenly serious: "But it looks like we got to do it the hard way, and stay down here, and educate them." He called the Southern police officials "peons, the idiots who do all the dirty work, the dogs who do all the biting." He went on for over two hours in that vein; essentially it was a lesson in economics and sociology, streaked with humor. "The white man starts all the wars, then he talks about cuttin' somebody.... They talk about our education. But the most important thing is to teach people how to live....""