I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

Sean Connery

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Bryan Cranston

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Wilson Mizner

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

Orson Scott Card

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Gretchen Rubin

I love you. And I don't want to lose you.

Cassandra Clare

When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

Ray Bradbury

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

John Green

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Catherine Deneuve

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly