Helena Bonham Carter // "Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room... When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university...because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you get bored of it...'Fuck it' is my guiding philosophy."
James Baldwin // "Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death...ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return."
Al Pacino // "There is only one way of surviving all of the early heartbreaks... You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless."
Georgia O’Keeffe // "It's not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve."
Robert Frank // "When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice."
Stanley Kubrick // "I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children...by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."
Ernest Hemingway // "The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
Leonardo DiCaprio // "Every next level of your life will demand a different you."
Ethan Hawke // "Often we imagine that we will work hard...arrive at some distant goal, and then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Happiness is the result of a life lived with purpose. Happiness is not an objective. It is the movement of life itself, a process, an activity."
Muhammad Ali // "When we devote all of our actions to a spiritual goal, everything that we do becomes a prayer."
Amy Winehouse // "I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart."
Bob Dylan // "The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel...someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there...somebody whose life I can feel."