When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Marilyn Monroe

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Polykarp Kusch

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Benjamin Franklin

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

Stephen Fry

The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.

Luis Albert Machado

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

LeRoy Neiman

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Updike

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

Norman Lamm

I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

Jessica Brown Findlay

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

Vicki Baum

I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.

Bertrand Russell

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Samuel Johnson