"I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits."

“I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.”

“Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.”

“The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.”

“God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.”

“I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.”

Source : Michael William Balfe, Alfred Bunn (1856). “The Bohemian Girl: An Opera in Three Acts Performed by the Pyne and Harrison English Opera Troupe”, p.14

“I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.”

Source : J.J. MARRIC; MARGARET MILLAR; BILL KNOX (1977). “GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT”

“I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.”

“With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.