Charlie Chaplin // "You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."
Philip Seymour Hoffman // "I hope we've gotten past where we have to identify who the person is by their sexuality...these are human beings...I would hope we'd be able to tell stories about gay men or straight men or gay women or whatever and focus on the person..."
Brad Pitt // "I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time...it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses."
John Updike // "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
Diana Vreeland // "A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I’m against."
Kurt Cobain // "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are."
Amelia Earhart // "Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?"
Oprah Winfrey // "When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."
André Gide // "Do not do what someone else could do as well as you... Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create...the most irreplaceable of beings."
Hedy Lamarr // "I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with."
Debbie Harry // "I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all."
Francis Bacon // "Beauty moves me. Nothing else."