I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Ken Gire

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

Leona Lewis

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

Source Unknown

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.

Larry McMurtry

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

Trevor McDonald

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.

Edward Hoagland

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Queen Elizabeth

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

George Clooney

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Jimi Hendrix

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Karl Popper

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell