Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.-Alina Chase

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

I don't stand behind the camera drooling. Knowing that, the models are more likely to open up and relax.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

Unless you got real short and real fat, you ain't no Booker T!

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.