All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

Michelle Pfeiffer

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Albert Camus

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guil

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

William Shakespeare

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Albert Camus

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Marilyn Manson

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

Stephen Leacock

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Anthony Kiedis

When the moral sense is wanting, we endeavor to supply the defect by education, by appeals to reason and calculation, by presenting to the being so unhappily conformed, other motives to do good and to eschew evil, such as the love, or the hatred, or the rejection of those among whom he lives, and whose society is necessary to his happiness and even existence; demonstrations by sound calculation that honesty promotes interest in the long run; the rewards and penalties established by the laws; and ultimately the prospects of a future state of retribution for the evil as well as the good done while here. These are the correctives which are supplied by education, and which exercise the functions of the moralist, the preacher, and legislator; and they lead into a course of correct action all those whose depravity is not too profound to be eradicated.

Thomas Jefferson, to Thomas Law,

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Mickey Rourke