Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

Demi Lovato

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

Dejan Stojanovic

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Thomas Kempis

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Tina Turner

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence

Samuel Johnson

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The CrackUp

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life

Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, c

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure

Thomas Jefferson

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.

Calista Flockhart

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh