All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

Acting is happy agony.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

‚Discworld‘ is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

I can’t act!

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

The American people have not become heartless.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.