"The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves."

“I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.”

“I never ever took my career seriously.”

“There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.”

“Peace is always beautiful.”

“I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.”

“I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.”

Source : Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG

“Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.”

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

“When you do your collection, you are much more free. You have fewer boundaries. When you work on a movie, you have to take into consideration the story, the plot, the vision of the director, even the physique of your cast. And then on top of all this, you want your imagination, your taste, and your ideas to come through. But a movie is forever.”