Heraclitus Quote

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

Shia LaBeouf

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

Nicolas Cage

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Words

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

Morgan Freeman

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

Rowan Atkinson

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

Samuel Beckett

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Alanis Morissette

• Truth

Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.

Cameron Diaz

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

Ninette de Valois

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Pierre Corneille

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Heinrich Heine

• Woman

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Aristotle

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

George Orwell

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• World

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Tony Robbins

• Difficulty

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

Javier Bardem

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

Javier Bardem