Natalie Portman // "When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself."
Virginia Woolf // "How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?"
Ornette Coleman // "I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure."
Matt Damon // "It was like, 'Why are we sitting here? Let's make our own movie.' And if people come to see it, they come; and if they don't, they don't. Either way it beats sitting here going crazy. When you have so much energy and so much passion and no outlet for it and nobody cares, it's just the worst feeling... This whole 'I'm too cool to care' thing...is so weak and stupid and played out, and it just brings everybody down. You shouldn't be too cool to care, for Christ's sake. You should be full of vim and vigor, and trying to do everything you can to make a change."
Fred Rogers // "If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."
Albert Einstein // "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
Jeff Bridges // "The habitual tendency when things get tough is that we protect ourselves, we get hard, we get rigid. But...that’s the time to soften and see how we might play or dance with the situation."
Louis Garrel // "There is a donkey who is both hungry and thirsty, but he can’t decide whether to eat or drink first, and so he simply dies... I’m like this."
Madonna // "A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."
John Malkovich // "People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other."
Amy Winehouse // "Mum, I hate mediocrity. I never want to be mediocre."
Lea Seydoux // "I think you feel you are somebody when you are young, then you have to try to make that person exist."