I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal.

It's weird how you can learn something incorrectly.

Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.

I know more English than Spanish, but I'm always a little embarrassed.

I really like acting in English.

I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.

The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

[John] McCain has never ripped into [Barack] Obama the way he rips into [Donald] Trump or other Republicans.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.