I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say and channel that through your character.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it with what they have where they are.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember death and life are in the power of the tongue.

We should tell our kids to just have fun participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach when they say that they say it tongue in cheek 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder ran across the street put me in his car and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day and thinks to please by its old graces it is only an object of ridicule.

Temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

A tart temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.