"I'm not out to change the world. I'm out to change mine."

“I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.”

“I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.”

“Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.”

“I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.”

Source : "Ingrid Pitt obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.

“Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.”

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

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”

“Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.”

“How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books