Wiping Quotes

"You get on a set and immediately people are wiping your ass for you, and nobody tells you when you`re being an asshole. I`m sure nobody working for Tom Cruise would turn around and say, `Tom, don`t do that anymore because you`re a dickhead to do that`. Actually, he might quite like it".

(on the Iraq war) One hopes that this kind of war can be done diplomatically, with intelligence rather than wiping out a lot of innocent civilians.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

It`s a tricky character, right on the edge of Uncle Remus. But, I knew how to play him right away. I knew when I read it. I just saw him -- the dignity in the character. The only time I ever worried about it was when I was doing the show Off-Broadway, and all these Southerners would come back wiping their eyes and talking about how nostalgic it made them feel. How their grandmother had a chauffeur just like that. I was like, `God damn it! I made these people nostalgic for the good ol` days!` But, then, I had some black friends see it, and they said, `Oh, my grandfather was exactly like that.` So that made me feel okay. - On the character of Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.