August 25 Birthdays

I dont think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I dont recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

Man, I love that song. I think about it at least once a day.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

My style is definitely schizophrenic, it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: sometimes Ill be going through a girly, childlike stage and wear a pretty lace dress with a bow in my hair. Then sometimes Ill be moody and just wear black.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Its in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.

To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. Theyre all great to be around.

Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something Ive been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? Ive written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that?

Actually, Im an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school... it didnt matter because I didnt have to impress anyone, and I didnt have to look cute in class.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart, they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

I dont know how anyone could vote Republican. Its so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. Brian Moore

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

To achieve great things, two things are needed, a plan, and not quite enough time.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

There's two kinds of musicheavy metal and all the crap they play on radio and show on MTV.

With these vulgar fractions of the treble clef, I wish you luck with a capital F.