Akira Kurosawa // "I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time."
Lillian Gish // "What you get is a living, what you give is a life."
André Gide // "Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again."
Isabella Rossellini // "I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me...a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamour."
Francis Ford Coppola // "That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life."
Eartha Kitt // "My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions."
Karen O // "I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience, maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living."
John F. Nash Jr. // "The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart."
Mike Tyson // "People think I was born this way. They don't know what it took to get this way. The training, when you have to do things over and over again until you're sore. Deep in your mind you say, God, I don't want to do this no more...and then you push."
Saul Steinberg // "The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."
Amelia Earhart // "The more one does, the more one can do."
Tennessee Williams // "If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels."
Frank Sinatra // "You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough."
Liza Minnelli // "I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that."
Courtney Love // Kurt Cobain
Grace Jones // "When does one decide to be oneself? I think that's what it all comes down to."
Helen Frankenthaler // "There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."
Steve McQueen // "I believe in me."
Maria Callas // "When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
Joe Frazier // "You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes – that means your preparation. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights."
B.B. King // "When people give me all these great compliments, I thank them, but still go back to my room and practice."
Charles Bukowski // "The less I needed, the better I felt."
Diana Vreeland // "Without emotion there is no beauty."
Andy Warhol // "I'd prefer to remain a mystery."