In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Ian Mckellen

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Robert Welch

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J. K. Rowling

Better a consultant who tap dances, than a consultant who does the moonwalk.

John Alejandro King

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Andrea Arnold

I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've followed strange paths and worshipped strange gods; it must have come to you again and again--in fact you've admitted to me as much--that I was leading, at any time these thirty years, a selfish frivolous scandalous life. And you see what it has made of me.

Henry James

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

Julie Anne Peters

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Pablo Picasso

You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

J.K. Rowling

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo DaVinci