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(on whether he is religious) "I`m not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant... I`m very interested in religion as something to study, but I`m not a religious person in the slightest."

- Daniel Radcliffe

We really were vicious. In the beginning if anyone was the slightest bit flaky in a recording sesion, they were really in for a hard time. When you`re young you put the knife in. Brian couldn`t even be botherered turning up for sessions. There`s only so much you can do.

- Mick Jagger

(on George Peppard) He`s arrogant -- the sort of man who expects women to fall at his feet at the slightest command; who throws his weight around. He gives the impression that he`s the star, what he says goes and that nobody else is very important.

- Joan Collins

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn`t be so adored in the slightest.

- Christian Bale

I don`t have the slightest desire to speak about my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Villians are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. But I actually despise certain forms of villainy. In England, we have a class of villain that`s very proud of itself. I`ve found them totally uncharming. I`m not the slightest bit impressed by how he has robbed a bank, how he has killed someone. I only once played a real villain. He was based on the life of a real man. I really didn`t like him. I played him for what he was worth, which was a bullying, cowardly, malevolent, treacherous son-of-a-bitch. Although he had a measure of charm -- the little shit.

- John Rhys-Davies

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that`s cool. Let`s look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

- Erykah Badu

Naturalness is the greatest requisite of comedy. It must be real and true to life. I believe in realism absolutely. Real things appeal to the people far quicker than the grotesque. My comedy is actual life, with the slightest twist or exaggeration, you might say, to bring out what it might be under certain circumstances.

- Charles Chaplin

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

- Bertrand Russell

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there`s even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It`s not real.

- Ethan Embry

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I`ve played the game for 40 years and I still haven`t the slightest idea how to play.

- Gary Player

Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn`t impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

- Katie Price

I`d spent 10 years learning my craft, and I`m just a professional writer, and how I`m perceived doesn`t matter to me in the slightest - because I don`t live in L.A., I don`t go to parties, I don`t go to openings - I just keep my head down and do my job.

- John Logan

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

- C.S. Forester

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

- Robert Welch

Science doesn`t in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

- Walter Gilbert

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

- Giacomo Casanova

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn`t the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

- Otto von Bismarck

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

- Al Giombetti

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

- Al Muchka

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn`t have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

- Alan Bersin

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

- Alana Beard

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

- Albert Rauch

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

- Alex Beuzelin

I was proud that I made it through the program, because no one expected us to. They got rid of a lot of us for the slightest of reasons.

- Ann Strother

If Rather were the slightest bit hard on himself, he would have resigned the minute the forgery fiasco unraveled. He would not have let his supporting cast get thrown out on the street while he was still drawing a paycheck with so many zeroes it would give liberal tax-hikers the vapors.

- Anne VanBeber

The doctor told me I`ve damaged a disc and that the slightest impact could have very serious consequences.

- Annie Basic

If it`s very painful for you to criticize your friends - you`re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that`s the time to hold your tongue.

- Alice Duer Miller