Henrik Ibsen Quote

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Friendship

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Javier Bardem

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Marcel Proust

• Freedom

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

Denzel Washington

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Ewan McGregor

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

Liza Minnelli

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Mae West

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Heart

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

Emanuel Swedenborg

People often say I'm a child at heart. In fact, I think I just have access to my childhood, I have a very clear memory of it. We were all children once. We just need to show a bit of respect for it.

Luc Besson

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

Morgan Freeman

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Annie Leibovitz

Saying is one thing and doing is another

Michel de Montaigne

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

Gwyneth Paltrow

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

William Faulkner

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Victor Hugo

• Man
• Mind

I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

Ursula Andress