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“Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.”
Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.
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“If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.”
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“My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.”
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“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.”
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“It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.”
Source : "Aubrey Beardsley". Book by Robert Ross, p. 7, 2018.
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“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”
Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.7, Macmillan
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“The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance”
Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.308, Faber & Faber
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“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”