"Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it."

“Let my temptation be a book.”

Source : Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.47, tredition

“I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.”

“I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.”

Source : "Q & A With Lesley Nicol of Downton Abbey: Salty Raspberry Meringue, Adventures in Pretend Cooking + How Mrs. Patmore is Like Gordon Ramsay". LA Weekly interview, www.laweekly.com. January 5, 2013.

“I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.”

Source : Interview with Matt Cotterill, higher-frequency.com. April 15, 2006.

“But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.”

“I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate”

“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”

“It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.”