Anatole France Quote

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

Reese Witherspoon

• Perfection

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

Armand Assante

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Pablo Picasso

• Success

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Leonardo DiCaprio

• Change

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

Javier Bardem

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

Brooke Shields

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman? How dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too.

Chuang Tzu

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Juliette Binoche

• Actress
• Change

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

Nastassja Kinski

• Dreams

Great things are won by great dangers.

Herodotus

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Martin Luther

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Gloria Estefan

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Herman Melville

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Honore de Balzac

• Power

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

• Woman

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Thomas Jefferson

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

Isabelle Adjani

I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.

Demi Moore