William Shakespeare Quotes

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.

If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

There is this really old school stereotypical notion in Australia that to be Aboriginal you have to be black: anything but white or pale skinned. What 'The Sapphires' does is open up the conversation that I've been having my whole life, the fact that being indigenous isn't about the color of your skin; it's about your connection to your culture.

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.