I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in

Ronald Reagan

... the situation was still too delicate for complete candor and the ultimate truth too unformed for statement.

Dean Acheson

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

Jennifer Lopez

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

Debi Mazar

If you call an electric eel a rubber duckie, it doesn't make it a rubber duckie and God help the poor bastard who has a bath with the duckie.

Cassandra Clare

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

John Arthorne

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

Bradley Denton

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Robert Mugabe

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

George Bernard Shaw

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Matthew 9:37

Bible

...and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

Khaled Hosseini

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh