The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.

O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most ingorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep;

William Shakespeare

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

George S. Clason

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Akhenaton

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Marcus Aurelius

I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw [in the mirror] was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.

Amy Tan

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Voltaire

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

Victor Hugo

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

Hayden Panettiere

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

James Baldwin