August 3 Birthdays

When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my Shall We Dance? character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. Marvin Bell

I would love to have a complete family. Id love to do it all at once. Id love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if Im blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If Im not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back, I do.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and Ive made movies all over the world... Ive been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - Ive been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, People who choose to live here are insane.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Being Australian, Im probably more used to sunshine and the beach. Ive never been skiing, and I think I was already in my 20s when I saw snow for the first time.

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.

Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with also became so frightened, she couldnt give me the next line. I just walked off stage.

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

Whats special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different!

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols.

They are a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long, if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.

Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter. Happy Valentines Day.