I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

Jamie Farr

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

James Wan

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Annie Lennox

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

Bridget Hall

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 182

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Joseph Fiennes

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Gary Ackerman

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Peggy Fleming

Since narcissists deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

M Scott Peck

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

Jada Pinkett Smith