"Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf."

“An intellectual hatred is the worst.”

“I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.”

Source : "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

“I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.”

“Being well-mannered and gracious and kind are things that I value really highly.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.”

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

“What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.”

“You can educate people about politics, criminality, the law, but not about medicine? It's just silly.... I really don't want to hurt anybody, but to say the truth and to offer words that might be helpful in understanding what some of these conditions are. I can't see any reason not to do that. That's changing things for the better.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

“Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.”

Source : David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.20, Shambhala Publications