"I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do."

“For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.”

“I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.”

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

“But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2004). “The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California”, p.55, Heyday

“I invented the historical spy novel.”

“When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?”

“It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.”

“Necessity inspires the fatal thought.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

“I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.”