I write because I can’t sleep.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

— Mark Twain

I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.

— Jennifer Lopez

A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to…

— Kenneth Faried

Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them."…

— Sharon Gannon

When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five…

— Richard Simmons

I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself and be nice to myself. I need to keep telling…

— Daul Kim

I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

— Robert Englund

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd…

— Greg Norman

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

— Greta Garbo

I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of…

— Sandra Cisneros

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me…

— Eddie Redmayne

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

— Jules Shear

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

— Nhat Hanh

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

— Libba Bray