Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Gary Oldman

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

Shuler Hensley

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

Brendan Fraser

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

Alfred North Whitehead

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

Sebastian Bach

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

Angela Carter

As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who could not get work, and consequently could not get wages, and consequently could not get bread - they were left to suffer on, perhaps inevitably left. It would not do to stop the progress of invention, to damage science by discouraging its improvements; the war could not be terminated; efficient relief could not be raised. There was no help then; so the unemployed underwent their destiny - ate the bread and drank the waters of affliction.Misery generates hate. These sufferers hated the machines which they believed took their bread from them; they hated the buildings which contained those machines; they hated the manufacturers who owned those buildings.

Charlotte Bronte, Shirley Part O

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

Anthony Anderson