William Shakespeare Quotes

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.

I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

I liked the Ballarat train as a child.

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.