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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

The truth is I was suffering from bipolar disorder. It went on for 18 months, during which I changed four doctors, the medication wasn't working on me, and crazy things were happening.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

Everything I wear is custom made.

Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people who will object to it.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.

I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

I had cut myself off from everyone. I didn't come out of my room, forget stepping out of the house. I had a beard, and I didn't get a haircut for months. For someone who has performed in front of a crowd of 20,000, I was scared of facing 4-5 people. That's what bipolar disorder does to you.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.

Change comes from reflection.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.