For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

I was adored once too.

William Shakespeare

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

Jerry Saltz

We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.

Jimmy Fallon

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Henry Miller

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

James Thurber

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

Julian Cope

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

Bonnie Blair

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

Paul Walker

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Michael Phelps