"People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well."

“Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.”

“It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.”

“Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.”

Source : Kirk Douglas (2000). “Climbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

“The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.”

“The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.”

“"Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his frequent calls for freedom became a cliché because he did it so often. They didn't get it, but Reagan certainly did. He thought deeply about the relationship between God and human freedom and the nonrelationship between atheistic communism and that freedom.”

“Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”

Source : Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.38, A&C Black

“I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.”

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