"The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it."

“I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.”

“The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.”

“When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.”

Source : Pattie Mallette, A. J. Gregory (2012). “Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom”, p.76, Baker Books

“Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.”

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

“Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US, and then they're all Italians.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.”

“The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.”