"Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking, he is not bigoted about it."

Damon Runyan
(10/04/1884 – 12/10/1946)
US writer

"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."

Buster Keaton
(10/04/1895 – 02/01/1966)
US comic actor

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

Brendan Gill
(10/04/1914 – 12/27/1997)
US writer

"An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly."

Charlton Heston
(10/04/1924 – 04/05/2008)
US actor, NRA president

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."

Alvin Toffler
(10/04/1928 – )
US writer

"I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler."

Anne Rice
(10/04/1941 – )
US writer

"The local groceries are all out of broccoli,
Loccoli."

Roy Blount, Jr.
(10/04/1941 – )
US writer

"My weakness is wearing too much leopard print."

Jackie Collins
(10/04/1941 – )
English writer (sister of Joan)

"There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up."

Bernice Johnson Reagon
(10/04/1942 – )
US historian, musician (Sweet Honey in the Rock), on racism

"I was told I had an overabundance of original sin."

Susan Sarandon
(10/04/1946 – )
US actor (partner of Tim Robbins), on parochial school

"I think that the film 'Clueless' was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." Alicia Silverstone
(10/04/1976 – )
US actor

"If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show."

Rachael Leigh Cook
(10/04/1979 – )
US actor