"Confidence isn't something you prove to people, it's something that comes off from who you are and how you represent yourself."

“Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.”

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”

“I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.”

“Uh, homes, we are what we are. Black, white, Brown, yellow. Point is don't be ashamed of who you are, man. You wanna call it sterotyping. Hey, This is me, Órale vato, this is who I am. Take me or leave me. You don't like me? Turn around and look the other way. Its that simple.”

Source : "Eva Green Talks Bond, Burton, and Her Decision to Work with Roman Polanski". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. September 29, 2016.

“The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.”

“There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.”

“We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.6, Bantam

“The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality”