I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing

Jane Austen

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories -- and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.

Kenneth Grahame

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Aristotle

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Steven Wright

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Anita Loos

We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.

Sarah McCoy

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Andrew Young

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

George Oppen

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Kristin Hersh

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Edward George BulwerLytton