I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

If you speak or write truth about powerful men, they become your enemies.

Matthew Paris

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

Marilyn Manson

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Milton Berle

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

Hector Hugh Munro

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

Vivienne Westwood

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

Samuel Johnson

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

Robin Tunney

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Harvey Keitel

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Emily Post