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

"A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure"

"Never lose the first impression which has moved you"

"Art is nature as seen through a temperament"

"The only hard step in building up my fortune was the first thousand dollars. After that it was easy"

"An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory"

"Courage is the antidote to danger"

"Photography helps people to see"

"Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat, or I'll give it to you through the door"

"Those vaudevillians knew something that ultimately I came to understand and believe - that audiences are the ones who determine material. They buy the tickets"

"I probably was one of the few fellas in the business who had done any degree of boxing and street fighting and who looked as if he had done it"

"The lovers of hate, born in fear - Find no release from tension - They spend their lives in a permanent state - Of miserable apprehension"

"Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order"

"I came out here on a three week guarantee, and I stayed, to my absolute amazement, for thirty-one years" [about Hollywood]

"Talent was not nurtured, it was consumed. We did our job. If anyone was practicing art, I never saw it"

"Where I come from, if there's a buck to be made, you don't ask questions, you go ahead and make it"

"I'm here to dance a few jigs, sing a few songs, say hello to the boys, and that's all"

"With me, a career was the simple matter of putting groceries on the table"

"One shouldn't aspire to stardom - one should aspire to doing the job well"

"Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say"

"You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself"

"I know you’re a smart lawyer, very smart, but don’t get smart with me"

"The kind of fellows I play, pretty girls don’t write to"

"All the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike"

"Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life"

"I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress"

"Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth"

"I'm sick of carrying guns and beating up women"

"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence"

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight"

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight"

"Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed"

"One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions"

"Oh, it's quite all right, we curse quite a lot around here"

"Failure usually works for me in the end"

"Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are"

"Facing your fears robs them of their power"

"Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people"