We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

Jimmy Carr

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

Guru Angad Dev

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

Simon Mainwaring

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

Bruce Beresford

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

Jason Aldean

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock