If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

Salma Hayek

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Wesley Morris

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

Joaquin Phoenix

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

Idris Elba

O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!

William Shakespeare

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Oscar Wilde

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

Joan Collins

This I have known, and these have come againWith echoing happiness in heart and brain;Time standing still, surrendering to meBeauty that otherwise would cease to be.

William Kean Seymour

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber

Samuel Johnson

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Amy Lowell