"The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work."

“Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.”

“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.”

Source : "Evan Peters Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Establishing His Character this Season and Working with Jessica Lange and James Cromwell". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2012.

“Being a stage performer for me, was - to be in front of people was just something that just came very naturally to me. And I love to sing. I love being on stage and I love making people happy, so you just don't walk away from something like that.”

“Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.”

Source : Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

“Beatles, women and children first!”

“I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.”

Source : Carolyn Wheat (2011). “How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense”, p.41, SCB Distributors

“You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.”

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

“... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”