Mel Brooks

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks

He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks

I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Mel Brooks

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks

John Cusack

A lot of people are not meant to be together.
John Cusack

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
John Cusack

Art is spiritual.
John Cusack

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
John Cusack

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
John Cusack

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
John Cusack

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
John Cusack

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
John Cusack

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
John Cusack

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
John Cusack

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
John Cusack

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.
John Cusack

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.
John Cusack

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
John Cusack

I was never interested in being an overly public person.
John Cusack

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
John Cusack

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
John Cusack

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
John Cusack

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
John Cusack

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
John Cusack

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
John Cusack

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
John Cusack

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
John Cusack

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
John Cusack

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
John Cusack

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
John Cusack

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
John Cusack

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
John Cusack

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
John Cusack

George Michael

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
George Michael

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
George Michael

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
George Michael

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
George Michael

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
George Michael

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
George Michael

I think the media is a real demon.
George Michael

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
George Michael

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
George Michael

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
George Michael

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.
George Michael

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
George Michael

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
George Michael

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
George Michael

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.
George Michael

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
George Michael

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
George Michael

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
George Michael

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
George Michael

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
George Michael

Cyndi Lauper

As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are.
Cyndi Lauper

God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
Cyndi Lauper

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
Cyndi Lauper

I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.
Cyndi Lauper

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.
Cyndi Lauper

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.
Cyndi Lauper

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.
Cyndi Lauper

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
Cyndi Lauper

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.
Cyndi Lauper

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
Cyndi Lauper

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.
Cyndi Lauper

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.
Cyndi Lauper

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
Cyndi Lauper

Lionel Richie

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
Lionel Richie

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
Lionel Richie

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.
Lionel Richie

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
Lionel Richie

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
Lionel Richie

Paula Abdul

All you can do is the best you can do.
Paula Abdul

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
Paula Abdul

American Idol has taken over my whole life.
Paula Abdul

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.
Paula Abdul

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
Paula Abdul

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
Paula Abdul

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
Paula Abdul

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
Paula Abdul

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
Paula Abdul

I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.
Paula Abdul

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.
Paula Abdul

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.
Paula Abdul

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
Paula Abdul

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
Paula Abdul

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.
Paula Abdul

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.
Paula Abdul

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
Paula Abdul

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.
Paula Abdul

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.
Paula Abdul

I'm happily single.
Paula Abdul

I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.
Paula Abdul

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.
Paula Abdul

If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.
Paula Abdul

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.
Paula Abdul

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
Paula Abdul

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.
Paula Abdul

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
Paula Abdul

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.
Paula Abdul

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
Paula Abdul

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.
Paula Abdul

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.
Paula Abdul

There are many talented people.
Paula Abdul

There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say.
Paula Abdul

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?
Paula Abdul

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.
Paula Abdul

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.
Paula Abdul

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
Paula Abdul

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.
Paula Abdul

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Paula Abdul

Sir Paul McCartney

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
Paul McCartney

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Paul McCartney

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
Paul McCartney

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
Paul McCartney

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
Paul McCartney

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Paul McCartney

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
Paul McCartney

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
Paul McCartney

I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
Paul McCartney

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
Paul McCartney

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
Paul McCartney

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
Paul McCartney

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
Paul McCartney

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
Paul McCartney

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
Paul McCartney

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Paul McCartney

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
Paul McCartney

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.
Paul McCartney

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
Paul McCartney

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartney

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.
Paul McCartney

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
Paul McCartney

Love is all you need.
Paul McCartney

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD. It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school. Lucy was a kid in his school.
Paul McCartney

Lyricists play with words.
Paul McCartney

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Paul McCartney

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
Paul McCartney

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
Paul McCartney

Think globally, act locally.
Paul McCartney

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
Paul McCartney

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
Paul McCartney

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
Paul McCartney

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
Paul McCartney

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
Paul McCartney

Barry Manilow

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
Barry Manilow

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
Barry Manilow

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
Barry Manilow

The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
Barry Manilow

There's just no quiet in Vegas.
Barry Manilow

Joyce Carol Oates

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Joyce Carol Oates

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
Joyce Carol Oates

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
Joyce Carol Oates

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates

In love there are two things - bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
Joyce Carol Oates

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Joyce Carol Oates

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
Joyce Carol Oates

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
Joyce Carol Oates

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Joyce Carol Oates

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
Joyce Carol Oates

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
Joyce Carol Oates

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
Joyce Carol Oates

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
Joyce Carol Oates

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Joyce Carol Oates

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
Joyce Carol Oates

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
Joyce Carol Oates

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Joyce Carol Oates

Ally Sheedy

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.
Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
Ally Sheedy

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
Ally Sheedy

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.
Ally Sheedy

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
Ally Sheedy

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
Ally Sheedy

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.
Ally Sheedy

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learning's, if not with what I went through to learn.
Ally Sheedy

Judy Garland

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

Behind every cloud is another cloud.
Judy Garland

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Judy Garland

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland

I'm the original take-orders girl.
Judy Garland

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
Judy Garland

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.
Judy Garland

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Judy Garland

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
Judy Garland

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Judy Garland

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
Judy Garland

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Judy Garland

Johnny Depp

Am I a romantic? I've seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Johnny Depp

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
Johnny Depp

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
Johnny Depp

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp

I may have a feather duster down my pants.
Johnny Depp

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
Johnny Depp

I think everybody's nuts.
Johnny Depp

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.
Johnny Depp

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Johnny Depp

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
Johnny Depp

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
Johnny Depp

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
Johnny Depp

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
Johnny Depp

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
Johnny Depp

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
Johnny Depp

Josephine Baker

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
Josephine Baker

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
Josephine Baker

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
Josephine Baker

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
Josephine Baker

Marilyn Monroe

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn Monroe

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
Marilyn Monroe

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Marilyn Monroe

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Marilyn Monroe

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
Marilyn Monroe

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I'm alone.
Marilyn Monroe

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Marilyn Monroe

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
Marilyn Monroe

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.
Marilyn Monroe

It's all make believe, isn't it?
Marilyn Monroe

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn Monroe

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn Monroe

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn Monroe

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Marilyn Monroe

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn Monroe

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Marilyn Monroe

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe