If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear. " And you know what he said? "I can't hear you.
Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain.
You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.
Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.
I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.
According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.
There's no such thing as reverse racism.