I believe in love, children and being a good person.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Edouard Manet

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Denise Morrison

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Rene Descartes

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

I only make movies to finance my fishing'.

Lee Marvin

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Criss Jami

If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.

Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise o

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Margaret Cho

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Thornton Wilder

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Harry Browne

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Emma Watson