“I don't really know how to thank the Academy for this. And if I try we'll be here till Christmas. So I better get on…”
68th Academy Awards speech (1996)
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Emma Thompson 13
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“It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know."”
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 258

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Context: [H]e could never have played the hero, because for him it was creativity itself that had the heroic status, beyond politics, beyond patriotism, beyond even personal happiness. It’s the reason why his work is like that. His poetry, so wonderful when it is really flying, isn’t trying to tell you how much he knows. It’s giving thanks for how much there is to be known.

On the controversy over his weight, as quoted in "Ronaldo Traumatized With His Weight" http://www.insideworldsoccer.com/2010/04/ronaldo-traumatized-with-his-weight.html (April 2010), Inside World Soccer