What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Publilius Syrus

Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

Mark Haddon

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Salma Hayek

I was very sexual from a very young age.

Portia de Rossi

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

Henry David Thoreau

It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

Chris Pratt

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Eddie Izzard

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

He is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.

Leona Lewis

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

John Cowper Powys

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

Sienna Miller

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw, Candida, Ac