"Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts."

“Making films has never just been a job to me, it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going, it's what I do, it gives life purpose.”

Source : “Johnny Depp Retirement Saddens Christopher Lee” by Michael Smith, guardianlv.com. August 10, 2013.

“A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper

“Creative energy manifests in the 'aura' of the environment - the distinct atmosphere, quality and 'air of the place.' It has a contagious effect on people. When we walk into the environment, we know immediately whether or not the energy is present. Most of us need communities as sources of motivation and vitality; and in keeping with the basic movements of energy in nature, people charge one another in positive and negative ways.”

“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”

“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”

“I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.”

“If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.”

“Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.”