I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else – somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It’s comforting. It’s escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it’s just part of human nature to pretend. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
Before I knew it, I was singing, ‘I’m so tired of being alone,’ and that’s Al right there. From then, my attitude was, ‘Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I’m not going to emulate them anymore.’ Al Green Read Quote
Patty Griffin is iconic, and there’s no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people – not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she’s such an important figure in the American music scene. Dierks Bentley Read Quote
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you’re going to do it but when you do it. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
It dates back to my dad and my uncles. They all got permits to go to Beverly Hills High School back in the ’70s and early ’80s. After they finished college, they came back and became football coaches there. So I was there with a permit. Spencer Paysinger Read Quote
I come from a class which used to be called the gentry – which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. Julian Fellowes Read Quote
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. Enid Blyton Read Quote
Playing Mark Antony in ‘Rome’ will always be a favourite of mine because he was such an outrageously big and interesting character to play. Also, the fact that we were able, with that character, to find out and present the public with a biography of that man that had not been really seen before. James Purefoy Read Quote
As a featherweight I was walking around at 155 pounds and would just have to cut those 10 extra pounds. I wasn’t being very professional. Raphael Assuncao Read Quote
