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

"At 2 in the morning got the shelter of a tent where they lay having feasted on a bit of biscuit trying to sleep in their wet clothes"

"I have a pass for the Trenches so was not turned out or put under arrest"

"I walked down the point of the hill & had the satisfaction of seeing several balls & 2 shells go by, most of them striking a little to my left"

"It is not amusing at all hearing the whirr of cannon balls approaching"

"I saw the flash of a battery in front & stood still to wait for the shot ....as it approached it was with great satisfaction that I heard it pass over my head instead of making a nearer acquaintance with my person"

"Some riflemen down below saw me & their 4h shot came so near that I thought I best to decamp"

"This morning we have the news that the Russians had abandoned Sonjah Kaleda leaving to us 60 guns & 5 mortars"

"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery"

"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children"

"When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid"

"Our most merciless enemy is our past"

"Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance"

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is"

"An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains"

"Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man"

"Authors drink more than they write"

"Every new time will give its law"

"Evolution is a fairy tale for adults"

"My ambition is, whether hell or high water, to get a championship baseball team for St. Louis before I die"

"'Let me blow my stack first. Then you can blow yours"

"The golden rule, as I live it, is tolerance, kindness and respect for your fellow man and for the animals that live in nature. These things are part of my life"

"Cinema is just a form of masturbation. Sexual relief for disappointed people"

"The US Majors slunk away in cold fury [Cannes 1984]. I think it might be hard to get them back next year, but that is not my problem! They dislike being judged, they said, by 'a European jury'. Well: they bloody well were this year: and found wanting"

"It will make a bomb, with all those Stars how can it fail? Adored Sean C and worked very happily indeed with him... and made a surprising new mate in Ryan O'Neil who could not be nicer, jollier and brighter"

"Attenborough is breathing fire about his forthcoming 'Ghandi' and I walk in dread that he'll ask me to read 'the first draft"

"Gene Hackman was a bit Methody and got cross if the camera operator was on the set while he was rehearsing"

"So there you are. No reserve, no suspicion, no need to stay intact or hide. I am me. Wide out in the open"

"Holland was hell. Apart from the van Goghs, Rembrants and the Vermeers it is all a lot of crappy horror"

"Terror lurks not very far beneath this apparently cool facade. I'm as cool as a microwave oven really"

"I detest bloody politicians. They are disposable. But do appalling harm before dropping out"

"Women write and say; I let my husband do it because I think it's you lying on top of me"

"TV? Never! I don't want my audience going for a piss or making tea while I'm hard at work"

"I love the camera and it loves me. Well, not very much sometimes. But we're good friends"

"First there was the war and then the peace to cope with, and then suddenly I was a film star. It happened all too soon"

"There's something wrong with actors, we've always been a suspect breed"

"I was as scrawny as a plucked hen. The Rank Organisation did supply me with dumbbells"

"The kind of acting I used to do no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee"

"The camera can photograph thought"

"I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps"

"I just bash along I fear, and things get left behind rather"

"I am about the most irreverent fellow you could meet"

"Rage is sometimes inside. Heard of a Rage To Live?"

"Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella"

"Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present"

"Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life"

"The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration"

"Literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me"

"All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes"

"Writers are the exorcists of their own demons"

"One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser"

"Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now, there is three million drug addicts. I’d be happy to slaughter them"

"You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I’d kill you"

"When I take Viagra, it stands up"

"He is a bigot and I am not"

"Forget the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace"

"I don't see sub-prime mortgage market troubles imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained"

"As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses"

"China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little"

"Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window"

"I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift"

"I’d take Bieber to the woodshed and spank him"

"I don’t know what Bieber’s problem is. His career is over in three years anyway"

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone"

"When life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver"

"Be different, stand out, and work your butt off"

"Don't judge me, and I wont judge you"

"I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around"

"The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected"

"You can't go on making records just for your own hometown"

"Change is not an event, its a process"

"There are so few women in rap"

"I love the BlackBerry ... The iPhone is a toy"

"I would love a robot butler"

"Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags"

"Vacation means titillating my taste buds"

"Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part"

"Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat"

"I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing"

"Relationships are a two way street. Not a highway and a bike path"

"To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on"

"The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious"

"When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher"

"I'm still breathing because I have faith"

"Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals"

"I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas"

"Theater is like going to the gym for actors"

"I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work"

"When you go up in the ranking, for sure you have more friends"

"Push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think"

"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are"

"Try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what"

"I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference"

"You won't be happy until you love yourself"

"I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone"

"Money can run out but talent is forever"

"I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time"

"Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice"

"They can't scare me, if I scare them first"