John Lennon

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was ‘all you need is Love.’ This year, it’s ‘all you need is Love and peace, baby.’ Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You’re all geniuses, and you’re all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like.

I don’t intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I’ll be around I don’t intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don’t want to die at 40.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ than being in Coldplay.

If you’re wondering why I was only nominated for three of the categories tonight, it’s because I don’t swallow.

We’ll probably end up doing a terrible crossover, where the Matthew Perry character on the drama rapes my character on the comedy-and then the ‘Law & Order’ team solves the crime.

I think Daniel (Radcliffe)’s… just so far superior to me in terms of desirability, so he didn’t really have much of a competition with me. If I were Katie, I would definitely go out with him because he’s rich and famous, and I’m not really!

I’m very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I want to know the answer.

Do you know how much hate mail I’ve gotten from people who love Mario Kart? … In one day, I managed to ruin half of America’s childhood and mushroom farming everywhere.

I don’t fight for much, but when I fight for something, it’s usually because I think I’m going to be right.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

It’s my nature to downplay.

I think, really, what it was was that I was raised in a very gray Britain in the 1950s. We were pummeled during the war. A lot of our cities were wrecked and smashed up and as we came out of that, we were baby boomers there; we didn’t have the candy apple red; we didn’t have the big chrome decals; we didn’t have Elvis. So what we did, we came out ferocious. We came out kicking and spitting and it was a reaction to the gray and depletion of our islands….

You’d be surprised how much fun you start to have once ya stop giving A f**k.

I’ve never done a romantic comedy, because it seems they can’t just tell a love story. It’s always something like a radio station does a poll and decides these two people will get along, and if they do they get a million dollars. You don’t need all of that to get into a love story.

If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

I’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.

When you’re acting, you’re a character and you can hide behind that. Music is who you are right then and there – you can’t hide.