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“All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.”
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“If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.”
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“You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.”
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“If you can… fall in love, with the work, with people you work with, with your dreams and their dreams. Whatever it was that got you to this school, don’t let it go. Whatever kept you here, don’t let that go. Believe in your friends. Believe that what you and your friends have to say… that the way you’re saying it — is something new in the world.”
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“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”
Source : "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.
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“Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there.”
Source : Richard J. Evans (2007). “Lying About Hitler”, p.261, Basic Books
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“It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.”
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“It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.”
Source : "Simpson tells judge he is innocent" by Anne McDermott, www.cnn.com. September 22, 1995.