Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

John Major

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Ezra Pound

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Camille Anna Paglia

I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

John Mahoney

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

Criss Jami

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

Eleanor Tomlinson

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Thomas Carlyle

The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.

Kyle Shewfelt

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Iris Murdoch

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

Steve Ballmer