"Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places."

“Let love be your perfect weapon.”

“No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, Oh, Julie Adams - Creature from the Black Lagoon.”

“My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.”

Source : "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

“I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big.”

“Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.”

Source : David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

“When I was a little kid, I told stories.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2011.

“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”

“I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.”