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

"My mind is made up. We must put everything at stake to save Bohemia"

"We never see each other except at dinner ... His temper gets worse every day ... Please burn this letter ... I just try to avoid public scandal"

"I am the only person in his way and so I am an obstruction and a burden ... Abdication alone can remedy matters"

"I can never have enough children; In this I am insatiable"

"One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing"

"Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect"

"Art is a wound turned into light"

"We will never have repose. The present is perpetual"

"The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared"

"Art is made to trouble but science reassures"

"With age, art and life become one"

"Truth exists; Only lies are invented"

"In a painting, what counts is the unexpected"

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind"

"Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone"

"Women want love to be a novel, men a short story"

"Life and death do not wait for legal action"

"The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem"

"He can run, but he can't hide"

"When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million"

"Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten"

"Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves"

"If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody"

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"

"I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows"

"I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is"

"I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit"

"I discovered in working on the script that it was like quicksand: The harder we worked, the more we investigated, the more damage we did" (about T.R. Baskin)

"I was too tall and big-boned and never had good feet" (the reason he quit Ballet)

"It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities"

"You know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse"

"We have become a nation ruled by fear"

"I'd like to choose my own kind of death, for a change. I'm tired of being tormented to hell"

"If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace"

"We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world"

"Daywork they called it, and it was damn cold on hallway linoleum. Misery is Detroit linoleum in January"

"I'm here today to urge you to keep the faith. I can't cheer you on with all my voice, but I can encourage, and I pray to motivate you with all my heart and soul and whispers"

"I believe you can make the most of ethics only when a country gets to a certain standard of living"

"You've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them"

"I am a strong believer in the principle of growth"

"I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty"

"To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation"

"Make a choice and do it like Hercules"

"That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing"

"That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes"

"Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty"

"Without women, we stood in space on one leg only"

"Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them"

"Success makes you confident, but that is so transitory and so easily taken away. I personally am very cynical about success"

"You have nothing to sell but yourself: you are the product and that forces you into examining yourself deeply"

"I don't think women should be made to feel that they have to marry and have children to be a human being"

"I think most actors are vulnerable and a lot of what they do stems from fear, both good work and bad"

"I feel great anger and frustration at how we're screwing up our world"

"I am a Jew and I am an American. You know what I am? I'm a Londoner"

"I don't have the confidence to be a personality"

"When in America I feel British, and proud of it"

"Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head"

"I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people"

"If you've got a face like mine, you can't be a straight actress"

"I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books"

"I yearn to be so free and comfortable on that stage"

"I am not articulate, I feel I can't express myself"

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there"

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision"

"Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand"

"You can't base your life on other people's expectations"

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it"

"Fear's what puts dreams to sleep"

"Minds ripen at very different ages"

"I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light"

"You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it"

"Existence is a fact; Living is an art"

"You should have desires, but the desires should not have you"

"Love is giving everything and taking nothing"

"Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free"

"Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present"

"Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others"

"Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence"

"Vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches"

"Sexuality is a window into someone's soul"

"Vampires are total sexual metaphors; There's just no way around that"

"Never underestimate the power of denial"

"If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem"

"I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks"

"Don't let what other people think decide who you are"

"Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money"

"Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild"

"Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity"

"If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it"

"God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way"

"The liberal Gluten-free agenda is turning our dogs lesbian"

"Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil"

"There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season"

"With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band"

"Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts"

"Women's football does have its knockers"

"Whatever the lame excuse might be, it doesn't excuse going a whole season so far looking like he should be at Chester instead of Chelsea"

"It was a surreal experience watching Tahiti winning friends for being useless at FIFA's second most prestigious tournament"

"I don’t want to end up being one of those vegetarians who constantly craves a bacon sandwich"

"Arsenal played for draws - not the mark of a great side"

"This is a sad and sorry Arsenal side. Arsene Wenger is a mess right now"

"I don’t want some UEFA pratt ruffling England’s football hair and saying how well we’ve done to win the Fair Play Award"

"A team fighting relegation from the Premier League (Leicester) got further than Celtic in the Champions League this season"

"What he needs to do is channel his inner Keegan and go for it. Be remembered for trying to entertain the Toon Army"

"So I think to over-celebrate a scrappy, deflected winner at Kilmarnock in such a fashion is embarrassing"

"Do not go to Arsenal, you will not level out. You will bottom out at Arsenal. It’s such a football vacuum"

"The invincibles [Arsenal] are a total and utter myth. A marketing myth"

"Is he carrying timber? If he is then that's unacceptable"

"You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to see that"

"I love tactical analysis - it fascinates me"

"I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe"

"I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely"

"The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind"

"Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences"

"People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable"

"We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong"

"Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet"

"Sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting"

"Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame"

"Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler"

"My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything"

"I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions"

"Confidence lets you pull anything off"

"Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind"

"f you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were"

"Women want to control other women because they've been controlled themselves. It's a cycle of control"

"Every time I start feeling sexy I trip"

"Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality"