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

Everyone was born with something to say, here's a list of the best and most memorable quotes made by famous people born on this day in history

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"I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"Thus goes the world. We mock at and deceive each other. He who, yesterday, was the ball, is today the horseman in the ring"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"You'll kiss my ass at least seven times if I manage to convince you from the crazy happiness I got from living here"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"The dream of reason produces monsters"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"As I am working for the public, I must continue to amuse them"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"I have no fear of Witches, goblins, ghosts or thugs"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

"My brush should not see better than I do"

Francisco Goya
Spanish artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1746

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all"

Robert Bunsen
German Chemist who invented the bunsen burner
Born on: 30th March 1811

"It is good people who make good places"

Anna Sewell
Novelist
Born on: 30th March 1820

"I am never afraid of what I know"

Anna Sewell
Novelist
Born on: 30th March 1820

"I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest"

Anna Sewell
Novelist
Born on: 30th March 1820

"There is nothing more artistic than loving people"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"I felt my energy revive, and said to myself, In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"It is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"This is the essence of Rembrandt's genius. It's his sympathy for humankind which makes his art eternal"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in the blue, then you must put in the yellow and orange too, mustn't you?"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"My whole life is aimed at making the things from everyday life that Dickens describes and these artists draw"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"Art is to console those who are broken by life"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"There is peace even in the storm"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough , what is enough?"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"What is done in love, is well done"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"Conscience is a man’s compass"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"The sadness will last forever"

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist and painter
Born on: 30th March 1853

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed"

Sean O'Casey
Playwright and journalist
Born on: 30th March 1880

"Laughter is wine for the soul"

Sean O'Casey
Playwright and journalist
Born on: 30th March 1880

"The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony"

Sean O'Casey
Playwright and journalist
Born on: 30th March 1880

"That's the Irish all over - they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke"

Sean O'Casey
Playwright and journalist
Born on: 30th March 1880

"A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; A sigh the faint echo of a laugh"

Sean O'Casey
Playwright and journalist
Born on: 30th March 1880

"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves"

Sean O'Casey
Playwright and journalist
Born on: 30th March 1880

"When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it"

Sean O'Casey
Playwright and journalist
Born on: 30th March 1880

"Money is like manure; It should be spread around"

Brooke Astor
Socialite and author
Born on: 30th March 1902

"Power is the ability to do good things for others"

Brooke Astor
Socialite and author
Born on: 30th March 1902

"When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them"

Brooke Astor
Socialite and author
Born on: 30th March 1902

"Sometimes I worry - it's all been going too well - a role I love to play in a series that's about as good as you can get. Something's wrong"

Richard Dysart
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1929

"I was trying to make it by doing films and TV movies"

Richard Dysart
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1929

"They remain timely, with cases about points of law that are still current"

Richard Dysart
Actor - Quote about LA Law
Born on: 30th March 1929

"I basically am a ghost. I think we all are"

John Astin
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1930

"With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?"

John Astin
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1930

"People are smarter than you might think"

John Astin
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1930

"The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse"

John Astin
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1930

"Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down"

John Astin
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1930

"Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"A director needs to be in control, but he really shouldn't be in complete control, because then things could be very boring"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"The difference between being directed and directing yourself is the difference between making love and masturbating"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"I'm ready for the unexpected. I think that's important. You can't plan too much"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"Polygamy is dumb fun. Monogamy requires much more sensitivity"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note for two twenties"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"Even the promiscuous feel pain"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"Government is not show business"

Warren Beatty
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1937

"I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"We didn't really have a band with Cream. We rarely played as an ensemble; we were three virtuosos, all of us soloing all the time"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"It's been up to me to inspire me"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"The only planning I do is about a minute before I play"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"Give me a guitar and I'll play; Give me a stage and I'll perform; Give me an auditorium and I'll fill it"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"Plant your love and let it grow"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"The Stratocaster is as good as it gets"

Eric Clapton
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Born on: 30th March 1945

"I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made"

Robbie Coltrane
Actor and comedian
Born on: 30th March 1950

"Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?"

Robbie Coltrane
Actor and comedian
Born on: 30th March 1950

"I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years"

Robbie Coltrane
Actor and comedian
Born on: 30th March 1950

"My children have more stamina than a power station"

Robbie Coltrane
Actor and comedian
Born on: 30th March 1950

"I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher"

Robbie Coltrane
Actor and comedian
Born on: 30th March 1950

"Every dollar you save this year saves you two next year"

Stephen Peace
Screenwriter, producer and politician
Born on: 30th March 1953

"Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption"

Paul Reiser
Actor, comedian and author
Born on: 30th March 1957

"There was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering"

Paul Reiser
Actor, comedian and author
Born on: 30th March 1957

"Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that"

Paul Reiser
Actor, comedian and author
Born on: 30th March 1957

"Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years"

Paul Reiser
Actor, comedian and author
Born on: 30th March 1957

"Happiness is the quiet lull between problems"

Paul Reiser
Actor, comedian and author
Born on: 30th March 1957

"The sky is the beginning of the limit"

MC Hammer
Rapper
Born on: 30th March 1962

"One of the strangest things in the rap language is the word or the phrase "sellout." What is really means is why didn't it happen to me?"

MC Hammer
Rapper
Born on: 30th March 1962

"Money has never been an issue with me. I will make and continue to make plenty of money"

MC Hammer
Rapper
Born on: 30th March 1962

"You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims"

MC Hammer
Rapper
Born on: 30th March 1962

"I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek"

MC Hammer
Rapper
Born on: 30th March 1962

"I'd like to live as if only love mattered"

Tracy Chapman
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1964

"I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives"

Tracy Chapman
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1964

"We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world"

Tracy Chapman
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1964

"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished"

Tracy Chapman
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1964

"I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty"

Tracy Chapman
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1964

"Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood"

Ian Ziering
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1964

"Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur"

Ian Ziering
Actor
Born on: 30th March 1964

"There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are"

Piers Morgan
Journalist and TV personality
Born on: 30th March 1965

"Susan Boyle has never experienced anything like this and is like a frightened rabbit in headlights"

Piers Morgan
Journalist and TV personality
Born on: 30th March 1965

"I get more excited about being around cricket legends than I ever do around Hollywood stars"

Piers Morgan
Journalist and TV personality
Born on: 30th March 1965

"I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag"

Piers Morgan
Journalist and TV personality
Born on: 30th March 1965

"I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us different"

Piers Morgan
Journalist and TV personality
Born on: 30th March 1965

"There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics"

Piers Morgan
Journalist and TV personality
Born on: 30th March 1965

"Bowie and Lennon were to me the greatest British rock stars of them all"

Piers Morgan
Journalist and TV personality
Born on: 30th March 1965

"I want to interview the most important people in the world"

Piers Morgan
Journalist and TV personality
Born on: 30th March 1965

"I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance"

Celine Dion
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1968

"Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can"

Celine Dion
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1968

"Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity"

Celine Dion
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1968

"Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains"

Celine Dion
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1968

"There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful"

Celine Dion
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1968

"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business"

Celine Dion
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1968

"I know this may come as a letdown to some guys out there, but ... I got straight A's through school, graduated at the top of my class, attended college, and excelled in math and science"

Donna D'Errico
Actress
Born on: 30th March 1968

"Living in LA, it's hard to imagine that there are millions of people in the world living in abject poverty"

Donna D'Errico
Actress
Born on: 30th March 1968

"All is fair in love and songwriting"

Norah Jones
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1979

"I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters"

Norah Jones
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1979

"Success and the art of making music are two different things for me"

Norah Jones
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1979

"Playing music is one of my great joys in life"

Norah Jones
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1979

"Your limitations create your sound"

Norah Jones
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 30th March 1979

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