My daughter is my passion and my life.

'I Am Number Four' is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.

Alex Pettyfer

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Ambrose Bierce

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

Susan Hampshire

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

W. H. Auden

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

Scott Weiland

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Stuart Briscoe

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Stephen King

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

Janet Frame

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Thomas Hobbes

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

Ellen Pompeo