Bill Murray // "I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up."
Marilyn Monroe // "If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere."
Yoko Ono (& John Lennon) // "Be silent in a group of people. See what they reveal to you."
Edward Norton // "I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions."
Walt Whitman // "I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen."
Simone de Beauvoir // "Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth."
Jack Nicholson (& Anjelica Huston) // "Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."
Maya Angelou // "We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do."
George Carlin // "I could never understand ethnic or national pride. Because to me, pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn’t a skill, it’s a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn’t say 'I’m proud to be 5’11”. I’m proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.' So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or American or anything?"
Simone de Beauvoir // "I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."
Bob Dylan // "Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about will come true."
Vincent Van Gogh // "I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."