My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

Clive Owen

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one

Joan Didion, "Vogue", June, 1961

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

Jimmy Buffett

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.

Charles V

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Sidney Madwed

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

Source Unknown

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Paulo Coelho

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Don Marquis

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach

People do not lack strength they lack will.

Victor Hugo

I still work out on a daily basis.

Clint Eastwood