Iconic Birthday Quotes From The Famous And Infamous Born On This Day In History

"Every painter paints himself"

"There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy"

"I would love to see the grimace he (Marquis de Cinq-Mars) is now making on the scaffold"

"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail"

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men"

"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason"

"Oh what will become of my children?"

"I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time"

"I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes"

"The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice"

"Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished"

"Boss Tweed, As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it?"

"The personality must be bigger than the prop"

"I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing"

"I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it"

"Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft"

"The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional"

"There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living"

"I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped"

"You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators"

"They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit"

"Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff"

"People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us"

"We each create the reality in which we live"

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own"

"Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining"

"A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull"

"We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were"

"The crowd has a way of being right"

"Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten"

"There is only one secret. To love what you are doing"

"I just loved and love life"

"My father, from the time I was two years old, had been a motion picture exhibitor, and I suppose it never occurred to me to do anything else but be an actor"

"Directing always held a certain fascination for me and the thought of one day producing seemed like an impossible dream"

"Most of television is crap. Cannon was crap"

"Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose"

"Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers"

"I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony"

"When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you"

"I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast"

"The angels had guitars before they had wings"

"I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer"

"I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror"

"I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny"

"I had a kind of Dickensian childhood"

"I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life"

"When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat"

"Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people"

"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive"

"Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean"

"I don't need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it"

"The only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it"

"When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19"

"You can't see the world through a mirror"

"I think the key word for me here is joy"

"This is my fourth Olympics, I think I'd better make the most of my experience"