"Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth."

“I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.”

Source : "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Geoffrey Rush". Interview with James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.

“The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.”

“I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.”

“Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.136, Knopf

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”

Source : The Elks Magazine, August 1956.

“The face... always the face. The body can [have] muscles or [be] too skinny -- I don't care.”

“After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.”

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

“I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.”