"All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA."

“Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts.”

“I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.”

“Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.”

“I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.”

“Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.”

Source : "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

“I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.”

Source : "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.

“We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.”

“I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.”

Source : Martha Finley (1867). “Elsie Dinsmore”, p.304