Jim Carrey // "Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
Harry Houdini // "My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear... No one except myself can appreciate how I have to work at this job every single day, never letting up for a moment. I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful."
Mary Ellen Mark // "The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life."
Bill Murray // "This is your life...not a rehearsal."
Buckminster Fuller // "The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's a different kind of life."
Cesar Chavez // "Once social change begins it cannot be reversed. You can not un-educate the person who has learned to read. You can not humiliate the person who feels pride. You can not oppress the people who are not afraid anymore."
Akira Kurosawa // "I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time."
Lillian Gish // "What you get is a living, what you give is a life."
André Gide // "Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again."
Isabella Rossellini // "I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me...a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamour."
Francis Ford Coppola // "That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life."
Eartha Kitt // "My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions."