Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Michael Caine

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?

Joan Manley

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

Jane Campion

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Scott Weiland

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Leo Tolstoy

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

David Ogilvy

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Jerry Saltz

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

Eminem

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Sarah Sutton

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

Heywood Hale Broun