Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.