"I am not born to just become an actor"

“I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.”

Source : "Fantasia Barrino on Suicide Attempt: 'I Just Wanted to Be Away From the Noise'" by Luchina Fisher and Lauren Sher, abcnews.go.com. August 24, 2010.

“It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body that I didn’t know how to respect and nurture myself or my body. By focusing so much on my exterior, I also robbed myself of the opportunity to feel good about myself and my body, simply because I didn't meet a cultural standard of beauty that is obsessed with thinness. That created stress that interfered with my weight loss and with my own happiness.”

“Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.”

Source : Newsweek 28 Jan. 1963

“A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.”

“I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure,”

Source : "Raf Simons: Force of Nature" by Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 09, 2013.

“Legend remains victorious in spite of history.”

Source : Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

“Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.”

Source : "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin's Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

“I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.”