"Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy."

“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.”

“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”

Source : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan

“It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.”

“A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.”

“Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.”

“I still love her. But she's retarded, too.”

Source : "Madonna: 'I still love her - but she's retarded' says Guy Ritchie" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 8, 2009.

“I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.”

“I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com