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“That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”
Source : Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.12, New York Review of Books
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“For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.”
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“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.”
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“If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!”
Source : Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”
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“What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.”
Source : "Washington Post's Graham Dies", www.wired.com. July 17, 2001.
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“The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.”
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“I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.”