Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

The good is the beautiful.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I’m totally myself.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.