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When you create art, the world has to wait.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I don’t necessarily believe in organized religion.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

The first step is you have to say that you can.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my ‘’ thing and get paid.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

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Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can’t imagine what else I could do beyond this. It’s really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I mean, I’m very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I’ve been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I would have absolutely messed up ‘The Matrix’.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

Life is lived on the edge.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

As a child, I watched ‘Dallas’ and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that’s where I thrive.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in ‘The Fugitive.’ That’s how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I want the world to be better because I was here.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I was in India recently and my hotel was near the Taj Mahal. Five times a day there would be a call for prayer, and it was the most beautiful thing. I was lying in my bed thinking, no matter what your religion is, it would be great to have that reminder five times a day to remember your Lord and savior.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have the knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don’t mean.

Actor, Will Smith

Will Smith

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn’t mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn’t get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I’m an actress and mom, and I probably don’t have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don’t know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don’t actually practise them.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

And also I think particularly as a female, you’re taught to be defensive your whole life. You’re taught not to be aggressive.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I love and adore being a mother. It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever been given.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I’d like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it’s probably more like a TV reality show.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don’t have one.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I don’t feel famous.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

And I haven’t read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I’m sure it’s interesting.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I was not particularly bright, I wasn’t very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I’m very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I’m not a gaping hole of need.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

We never left a set until we’d trashed it.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I’ve learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you’re raising small children, your family means everything.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I’m lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place – Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I’m more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It’s so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Fun wouldn’t be the right word… it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I’ve ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn’t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn’t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Even, today, when people tell me I’m beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it’s more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don’t practice or preach it, however.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Modeling is basically ‘Buy more stuff! Don’t you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!’ If I’d wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

It’s hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you’re being pushed to do it differently. I’ve had fights over that. That’s why it’s so important that you work with good people.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Actor, Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

There have been instances when people have told me that I look too intelligent to be an actress.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

As a student, I was a total jhalli who used to wear torn denims, faded kurtis, kohled eyes and thought that I was the coolest girl ever! We were a bunch of students who used to do social-issue-based street plays and believed that we could bring about a change in the world.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Being unapologetic about my body, my sexuality, my life’s decisions is a political belief that, as a feminist, I strongly espouse.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

All my life I have faced this awkwardness, as I almost sound like a guy. In fact, whenever I would call my friends, their dads would say, ‘Hold on son.’

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Honestly, and seriously, I know I have to do a Telugu film. It was my grandmother’s dream to see me in a Telugu film before she died. I couldn’t fulfil her dream before she passed away, but I don’t want to let go of it, either.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it’s the role that matters to me.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I have become a little more cynical and, I would like to believe, a little wiser. When I first came to Mumbai, I was very idealistic. Now I can look anyone in the face and tell a lie. But I’m in a good place.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I love acting, though I don’t like the frills around it – red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I was once caught climbing out of the classroom window while bunking a class. I lied that I had to go to the bathroom and the exit was crowded. The principal believed me.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I am an extremely laidback person when it comes to ‘looking hot.’

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Lately, I have realised that as an actor, I am representing certain aspirations to the world, and it’s important that I respect the love people have for me.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Frankly, Indian women inherit this collective cultural unconscious – this sense of guilt, shame, and dishonour. I think Indian girls need to become shameless and a little selfish, too.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I am a self-destructive idiot.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

In India, we are parented in a way that we get very good values. But the whole culture forgets to tell us to also value ourselves. It’s really OK sometimes to take into consideration your own happiness.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Remember that you have to be happy to make other people happy. Don’t get weighed down by duty, guilt, and responsibility all the time.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I’ve only seen myself as just an actor.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Bollywood, as an industry, is based on relationships. It has always been star-driven, and it has an element of feudalism.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I’ve been propositioned by men who were in a position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn’t give in.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Politics should come from human stories.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I feel glamour has a legit place on the ramp and in the fashion world. In films, glamour has to service the story.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn’t want to trade that with anything else.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

When I came to Mumbai, I didn’t know a soul. The only person I knew was an assistant director, which, everyone agrees, is the lowest form of life on the set. So, it was not a great contact to have. So, I knew from day one that I wasn’t going to be launched opposite a superstar.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I have had to answer questions like, ‘But you don’t look like lead material.’ Now, I still don’t know what ‘lead material’ looks like because everyone has eyes, a nose, and a face.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Once, I had a huge fight on a film set with an actor who threw tea on a spot boy’s face. I refused to shoot until he apologised.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

The contentious issue of pay parity between male and female actors is easily resolvable if a number of big actresses decide to put their foot down. But we have to also consider the factors of time and labour. If a female actor has shot only for 40 days and the male actor for 200 days, she cannot expect to be paid the same amount.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

In the industry, I am judged by what I wear. If I want to be taken seriously, I have to hire a team of stylists. It’s an occupational hazard. But it’s not as though I am any less of a feminist.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Let me be honest – I might do a franchise film like ‘Golmaal’ if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I was an avid ‘Chitrahaar’ and ‘Superhit Muqqabala’ watcher. We did not have cable TV for a long time, so that was my only source of entertainment growing up. My great fantasy was to be in ‘Chitrahaar!’

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

My parents are very democratic and liberal people who made the mistake of being democratic and liberal in the upbringing of their children! And in my case, they are still paying for it! Paying in the literal sense as well.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

Mumbai is a spider web. You do a film and make 10 connections and do something else and make 10 more connections. You keep moving like that.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I’m an actor, and I don’t judge my parts.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

I’m a typical Delhi girl. Professional parents, nuclear family. My father was in the navy. I’ve spent my whole life in government accommodation, and it’s been lovely.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

Actor, Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar

There’s a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn’t stress the actors.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I don’t teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I think love can happen at any age… it has no age.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

There is no right time and right place for love… it can happen any time.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I’m like a kid.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don’t want big cars, I don’t want big hotel rooms.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others’ discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it’s funny.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn’t understand.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Whenever I fail as a father or husband… a toy and a diamond always works.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

If I talk to a girl, it’s assumed that I’m having a scene with her. If I don’t, then it’s assumed that I’m gay.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I don’t like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I’m told to. But I’m not trapped by it.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Some people say, ‘Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don’t you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?’ But that’s not me.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

There’s a personal me, there’s an actor me and there’s a star me.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it’s as ordinary as anyone else’s.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I’ve won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I’m hungry for awards.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

More than an actor, I am a performer… I’m a great believer – honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so – that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there’s the postal service.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I don’t kiss on screen. Period.

Actor, Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan

I’ve always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

RuPaul

I’ve been on both sides; I’ve interviewed people, and I do an okay job, I guess. But it’s awful. Because you feel like you have to defend your life, which is such an interesting concept. It’s not an easy process to sit down and talk about, ‘What’s your motivation?’ Because as I’m answering, I’m working it out for myself at the same time.

RuPaul

The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society’s directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It’s courageous.

RuPaul

Young people need to know there are ways for them to navigate this life.

RuPaul

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

RuPaul

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It’s exaggeration.

RuPaul

I don’t think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That’s not living.

RuPaul

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

RuPaul

Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She’s a Scorpio, like me.

RuPaul

I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it’s afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.

RuPaul

For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we’ve found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky… And that’s how we stay entertained, and that’s how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.

RuPaul

It’s very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It’s important to not become bitter from it.

RuPaul

I’ve always been ambitious. I’ve always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.

RuPaul

All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.

RuPaul

Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It’s the most punk-rock thing you can do.

RuPaul

I’ve still never gotten used to myself in drag.

RuPaul

My spiritual practice reminds me of what’s really real, what’s really hood.

RuPaul

I love games. My favorite thing on this planet to do is to play games. And if you don’t enjoy games, then you’re really missing the point of what this life is.

RuPaul

Honestly, it’s important to not take this whole process of life on this planet too seriously. And you need games to remind you that every aspect of your experience on this planet is a game. And you have to be a good sport. You have to strategize, and you have to have fun.

RuPaul

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

RuPaul

Mainstream’s never appealed to me, really. I mean, I’ve become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather the mainstream come to me.

RuPaul

I’ve always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn’t matter if they were in film or music or fashion.

RuPaul

I had mentors, growing up in gay life – older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture – but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy.

RuPaul

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport.

RuPaul

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

RuPaul

I loved ‘Carol.’ I thought it was a beautiful film.

RuPaul

Hollywood is an idea. It’s not a real place.

RuPaul

I’ve cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody’s gone that far, because it makes life rich.

RuPaul

When I go out, I’m always dressed up. Not in drag but always prepared to be ‘on.’ Just in case somebody’s going to take a picture. Everyone has a Facebook page, so no matter what, I’m prepared to service the public.

RuPaul

People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and others like to keep it separate from business and commerce. It’s perfectly fine to say, ‘I actually don’t want to talk about my love because that’s not part of the fantasy world I created in commerce.’

RuPaul

My focus is on love and inclusiveness.

RuPaul

In my life, I’ve been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren’t outsiders don’t get a chance to do.

RuPaul

I’ve never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it’s all drag.

RuPaul

For both men and women, an eyelash curler is a must. It gives your eye the appearance of being well-rested and wide open.

RuPaul

Having an automobile in Los Angeles enables me to change clothes at least three times a day: I will go from western wear to nautical to Savile Row in the course of 12 hours.

RuPaul

The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can’t be your parent’s definition, the media’s definition, or your neighbor’s definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.

RuPaul

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I’m doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn’t embraced by anyone else.

RuPaul

Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea – and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!

RuPaul

Life’s journey – it unfolds for you as you are ready for it.

RuPaul

I’ve lived my whole life in the life – I’ve lived my whole life doing the thing, I’ve been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

RuPaul

Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.

RuPaul

The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am – What? Getting paid. It is my job.

RuPaul

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.

RuPaul

Everybody is in drag.

RuPaul

I haven’t found a heel that’s been too high for me yet.

RuPaul

I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

RuPaul

I’m a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

RuPaul

I’m ambitious. I work hard.

RuPaul

It’s true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It’s not rocket science.

RuPaul

We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it’s one of the traps we’ve fallen into over the course of our lives – to forget our history. That’s why George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

RuPaul

I’ve always idolized people who can write songs.

RuPaul

I love Ashford & Simpson, and I love the Brothers Gibb. They are amazing.

RuPaul

Usually, people who don’t have a broad perspective see gay people as servants – as people who are there to make them look good.

RuPaul

I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

RuPaul

It’s important to remember that you’re born naked, and the rest is drag.

RuPaul

Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it’s never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.

RuPaul

Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously.

RuPaul

I’ve been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.

RuPaul

Life is not to be taken seriously.

RuPaul

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

RuPaul

There’s not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than ‘I Will Survive.’

RuPaul

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.

RuPaul

If you’re upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

RuPaul

Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It’s unfortunate.

RuPaul

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

RuPaul

People don’t know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, ‘Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That’s what gay guys are, right? You’re an accessory for my straight life.’ Just because your limited view is that everyone’s there to serve you and that you’re the only person in the world. It doesn’t work that way.

RuPaul

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

RuPaul

I think our culture is moving forward – slowly. And also, as we move forward, we’re witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

RuPaul

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

RuPaul

I feel like I’ve won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

RuPaul

I don’t think drag will ever be mainstream because it’s counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.

RuPaul

The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.

RuPaul

It’s hard to get intimate with an audience.

RuPaul

I try to do three active things a day because I have to fit into costumes that are very tight.

RuPaul

I’m not religious, but I do pray. It’s 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.

RuPaul

I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.

RuPaul

Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you’re able to make room for other things.

RuPaul

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who’s actually wearing women’s panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.

RuPaul

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

RuPaul

Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That’s why drag is such a hard sell to a network – or anyone, really – because it’s up against the ego.

RuPaul

The only person I look up to – and not just in show business but also in the world – is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

RuPaul

In our subconscious, we all know we’re playing roles.

RuPaul

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

RuPaul

I have always worked and did my work on the fringe, where I have feel very comfortable.

RuPaul

It’s important to find your tribe.

RuPaul

From childhood, we’re trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way – so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

RuPaul

Throughout my life, I have always believed in love; I’ve always put my heart in love. But I’ve seen fear take people so often. It’s very scary.

RuPaul

There are so many sensitive souls; they don’t know what to do with their feelings.

RuPaul

La Flavour’s ‘Mandolay’ is a disco classic – I dare you to sit still while listening to it.

RuPaul

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

RuPaul

‘The Wizard of Oz’ is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.

RuPaul

I always bring an orange scarf, not just so I can wear it or tuck it into my pocket, but also so I can throw it over a lamp in the hotel room. Orange is my favourite colour, and it gives a lovely, warm ambience.

RuPaul

If you’ve worked in a factory, and you haven’t learned how to do something else, you’re obsolete. That’s just nature.

RuPaul

We encrypt ‘Drag Race’ with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the ’80s.

RuPaul

Don’t believe the hype; don’t believe what it tells you on your driver’s license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

RuPaul

It’s a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, ‘I come in peace.’ I come in peace. That’s why it’s important.

RuPaul

Wyoming – God bless you in Wyoming – it’s very boring, and it’s the most isolated place on Earth.

RuPaul

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

RuPaul

My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!

RuPaul

I enjoy being creative.

RuPaul

I think there’s a tendency with actor/directors to imagine themselves playing every part and trying to get people to follow their rhythm, their tempo, their pace. I’ve learned now to just love being at the center of this creative swirl.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

What I love about DVD is that the quality is good.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I really liked the ‘Pitch Black’ DVD, and I liked the commentary.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I can’t say that I am a DVD junkie. I see most films that I want to see in the theater, and so most of my DVD-watching is catching up with the occasional movies that I missed or revisiting a film that I really care about, in which case I really want the extra channels, because it’s a movie that I already love, and I want to know more about it.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

It’s hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

The story of John Nash is an amazing, powerful journey. But as unique as this man is, his story is also very accessible because it is so heartbreakingly human.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn’t always have the right terms for it, but most families have had a brush with it.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Unlike the twisters he famously chased in the movies, Bill Paxton was the kind of force of nature you ran toward and never away from.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

When I occasionally indulge in sort of a ‘look back’ at highlights, it’s so interesting – it almost never comes from an image on a set or even the Academy Awards. It’s almost always a family trip or meeting and falling in love with Cheryl.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I want to work. I’d be unsatisfied if I couldn’t be pursuing this. But I love my family more. This is really life.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

When people asked me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said a basketball player, and I meant it. But I loved going to the movies.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I don’t think there is a single character in ‘The Graduate’ that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I don’t look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I’ve begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Imagine if the people who have lived and learned still had the vitality to act upon the hard learned lessons – and not just share in a conversation, but lead.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I don’t believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I don’t want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’d say that ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ is the most challenging movie I’ve made. It was tough to figure out how to lead this large cast into some very sensitive, intense, emotional scenes.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I have a grandson who’s both really interested in art and all things mechanical, so I think he’ll get a huge kick out of ‘Apollo 13’ someday. And I think my granddaughters will enjoy ‘Splash.’

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’ve been around a lot of artists who are also good at business, and… one minute they’ll sound like an artist, and the next minute, they’ll sound like the characters in ‘Mad Men.’ Jay-Z’s a very good businessman, and he talks about it and enjoys it, but he doesn’t shift.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I didn’t really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I – when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

As a documentarian, you think, ‘Follow your curiosity.’

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

When I realized that my big dream was going to come true – ‘Night Shift’ was a success, ‘Splash’ was a success, I got the job to do ‘Cocoon’ – suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

When you’re young and you’re striving, it’s all uphill, and it’s easier to climb. Then, when you get and look around, you sort of say, ‘Wow, the altitude’s kinda thin up here!’

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’m lucky in a lot of ways. And in my family life, my home life, is where I count myself the luckiest.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Sometimes there’s something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

A scene, a day of shooting, can often make you feel kind of stupid and inept because your one job is to anticipate and react and know what to go for.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Even when you’re 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you’re not.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

There are creative benefits to getting older.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

My obligation is to the movie audiences.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’m excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Whatever your political leaning, vote. This participation is vital. I feel the same way about issues like the space program, education, the military. The more the public focuses on these things, thinks and forms opinions, I think the better we are as a democracy.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was… that he wasn’t this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It’s amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein’s genius.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Don’t make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Let me be clear: neither I nor ‘Angels & Demons’ are anti-Catholic.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

In the research I did for ‘Apollo,’ there was never a moment’s hesitation by anyone that we would do anything other than save these guys, until every resource, every ounce of energy was spent. And I’m very proud of that aspect of our culture.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

There was a combination of shyness and just fear of looking stupid that kept me out of a lot of interesting creative conversations that I could have had at an early age.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’ve been around the ‘Star Wars’ universe from the beginning.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Being a president is an impossible job – it’s naive to think someone can do the job and not bend the law here and there.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I have the career that I want.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

The hardest thing which I’ve experienced is calling up my father, Rance Howard, who’s a wonderful actor, and telling him I’ve had to cut him out of the movie, which I’ve had to do twice. That’s a lump-in-the-throat phone call.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

My brother’s a blast to direct; he’s one of those great characters who brings so much to every scene he’s in, and we’re pals.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

3-D is a truly exciting possibility. Whether that’s going to be something that sustains our interest, I’m not certain, but I think it will.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people’s imagination around that idea of pushing out, is one of the most positive things that I think I could be involved with.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I think it’s in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a species, are scratching that itch, we’re actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we’re going to continue to evolve.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

When ‘Apollo 13’ appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore – what it means to us here on Earth – all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren’t true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Can you imagine the first time they figured out how to mechanically raise somebody up through the stage and make them appear, or drop them down on a rope or a wire? It blew everybody’s minds, I’m sure.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I was a Beach Boys guy, but I was won over. In ’64, as the radio stations were creating this duel between The Beatles and The Beach Boys, I slowly but surely got won over by the Mop Tops.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Nobody can compare themselves to what The Beatles went through. It was wild.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

We’re all constantly keeping score. You can’t help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I really feel like you shouldn’t make a movie as a kind of exercise. You have to be all the way in.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I was never a comic book guy. I like the movies when I see them, especially the origin stories. I never felt like I could be on the set, at 3 o’clock in the morning, tired, with 10 important decisions to make, and know, intuitively, what the story needs. For me, I’d be copycatting and not inventing. I’ve never said yes to one.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

If you think about it, for almost any moment, any mood that you might be in, there’s probably a Beatles song that will address that mood, that feeling, that set of emotions. I don’t know that that can be said about very many groups, if any.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn’t work that way. But I’ve learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There’s a lot of drama there.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Anytime you really take a close look at people who are dealing with the aging process, you’re going to have a complicated reaction to what you’re seeing and feeling. If you’re in the middle of it, those emotions are going to be quadrupled. It’s immediate, it’s relatable, so it’s good human drama.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

We assume that healthy habits are a good idea, but in and of themselves, they are not the reason we’re going to be active at age 95 or 100. The body works in more complex ways.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don’t have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I want every movie to have a big audience. I’m always hopeful that it’s going to be discovered, and audiences are fantastic that way because every once in a while they surprise you. I didn’t think ‘Beautiful Mind’ was going to be that kind of global success.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Richard Dreyfuss, when we were doing ‘American Graffiti,’ was pumping me to vote for McGovern. But I think I wound up going for Nixon. I thought he could get us out of the Vietnam War quickly. Ha.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were married touring the country in ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Snow White.’ My mother was married in Cinderella’s costume; the dwarves were the best men.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they’re leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they’re being entertained.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it’s fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Television, particularly as it becomes more and more serialised, comedies no longer have to tie the stories up neatly within 20-plus minutes. ‘Arrested Development’ had evolving storylines, as did both versions of ‘The Office.’ We’re seeing that more and more. That allows it to be really, whatever the tone, almost literary.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’m not really a sequel guy. I did ‘Angels & Demons’ after ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ because I like working with Hanks, and I felt it was a really different sort of world that we were visiting. That was, of itself, interesting.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

There’s something rare and wonderful that’s very particular to television, and it’s when a great cast meets a great show runner/creator with the right set of characters to play. That’s what happened with ‘Arrested Development.’ It happens every so often, but all too rarely on TV.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there’s still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was ‘Apollo 13.’

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I think child stars have a leg up, actually, because they have an innate sense of what creative problem solving is all about. But to make a life out of it, you have to be ready to take on project after project. You have to like the action.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I never wanted to be a brand director. I didn’t want that kind of stamp. I wanted to be more like Pacino or Dustin Hoffman or Meryl Streep or De Niro – you know, a chameleon as a storyteller – because I love all kinds of movies.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I love all kinds of stories and movies, and I did work hard to get through to the creative community and studio executives that I could work in a number of different genres and tones.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’d rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I’m growing and challenging myself all the time.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Anything that stimulates the public’s imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I’m very excited to be a part of.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I don’t choose something unless I think I have a personal understanding and something I can offer. It’s not always thematic. I wanted to do ‘The Grinch’ because I wanted to direct Jim Carrey creating that kind of comic fantasy character live. I just thought that would be a mind-blowing experience, and it creatively was.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I don’t vacation on the water. I’m a pale-skinned redhead; I get sunburned out there. I’m a little frightened of the ocean, in fact. But I just know there’s great drama out there.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Nina Gold is a fantastic casting director. She’s doing the new ‘Star Wars’ movies, but she also does ‘Game of Thrones’ and many of the Working Title movies, and she did ‘Rush.’

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Early on in my career, when I had basically been a sitcom actor for all of these years, and I made my first movies, and they were comedies, and they were successes, it was very important for me to stretch, and ‘Parenthood’ was one of those films. Even though it was a comedy, there was a great deal of authentic drama in the piece as well.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I just don’t think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don’t lust after any particular roles.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the ‘Da Vinci Code,’ and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before ‘Angels and Demons,’ and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

With ‘Apollo 13,’ I wasn’t sure the genre would work, because space films hadn’t done that well.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’m interested in all forms of content, including Internet and gaming. On the TV side, cable has sparked a renaissance of the medium and that will continue for storytellers.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

If you’re not out there taking some risks, if you’re just coasting along with your wins, then you’re not really trying.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

When you’re an actor, you often feel victimized – you see the end result, ‘Oh, they didn’t use this take; they didn’t use that take. How come?’ There’s no ‘How come?’ with the director. There’s only one person to look at. Walk over to the mirror if you want to know why. But I prefer that.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Everything’s always about page-turning, right? What’s next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they’ll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That’s the game we play when we’re hearing a story unfold. That’s part of what sucks us into a movie.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress – the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of TV movies, I began to see that authority came with the job. So I began to relax and let more people into the process, and my work really improved.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

You can’t expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There’s something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

For my 10th birthday, what I wanted was Beatle boots and a Beatle wig. My parents couldn’t find Beatle boots, but down at the dime store, Woolworths or someplace, they found a Beatle wig!

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I went with a friend to see Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas, in the last year that he was performing. He wasn’t necessarily on top form, but the way he could connect with an audience and the way he communicated through the lyrics was something I hadn’t ever really seen before.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

As a director, I’ve wanted to have adventure in my life, creative adventure. I think it’s partly because I grew up, basically from age six to 26, mostly on television series where the producers find something that works and then do it over and over and over again.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’ve worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here’s the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I developed a theory that, in many ways, the early ‘Andy Griffith’ episodes especially were an awful lot like a Capra movie. They were a lot like ‘Mr. Deeds’ or a lot like ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ in tone and presentation.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I’d choose the directing job.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’ve always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Outside of his loving family, I’m sure that Andy Griffith was Don Knotts’ greatest fan.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Why fight technology at all? The audience is always going to tell you what they like best. And you, as a storyteller, as a communicator, are going to be required to adjust to that.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Once or twice in the height of ‘Happy Days’ excitement, which had more to do with Henry Winkler as The Fonz than ever had to do with me, we were kind of like a boy band for a year or so, and we would go out on personal appearances and feel the limousine rocking, and the grabbing at your clothes and people trying to steal your cap.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

My wife and I invest very, very conservatively.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Early in the second season of ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more ‘like the way a kid would say it.’ I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted, and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what this moment represented to me.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I never saw The Beatles live. I was very aware of them, though.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I acted as a kid. I always liked it, but I don’t really have a performer’s personality.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn’t share ’em. I think that you can’t live without suffering some.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone’s disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’m not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you’re there to do, which is make a movie.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I’ve acted with all types, I’ve directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They’ll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

Actor, Ron Howard

Ron Howard

I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if the director disagrees.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I really want that there should be love and respect between me and Ranbir, but at the same time, I want that there should be some kind of distance – that I can see you, but I can’t feel you.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am an actor, and actors should be willing to play all kind of roles.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I get very excited when I have to work in a film and when I am narrated.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I can never say that I don’t want to work anymore. That would be an absolute lie because I enjoy, I take delight in, working in films because I feel it’s an honour, you know, to entertain people, to regale audiences.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I don’t think it is wrong when you – when an actor goes and sells his film. I mean, it’s salesmanship; you got to tell the world what you have. You got to tell them, ‘These are my wares; please see how do you like them. If you like to buy them, please buy them.’ There’s nothing wrong in that.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am not a spokesperson for any political person or party.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I have campaigned only once in the elections, for Vinod Khanna in Gurdaspur, but that was not as a party member but because he is a colleague.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I do fun things on Twitter. I enjoy it.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I block the trolls.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am a believer of all religions. I will happily visit a temple, mosque, church. I do not differentiate between religions.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Being religious and spiritual makes me feel good.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I have never really hit a gym.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

All my performances have been unrehearsed.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Generally, when I am working, I tend to learn from my seniors and juniors.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

All my life, I struggled to get roles.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I like to be respected as an actor.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I have always been an arrogant man.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am high-strung and high-energy. My blood pressure is always high, and I am always excited to go to work.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I never argued with my father, and it so happened that, unfortunately, the same kind of relationship passed on with me and Ranbir.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I don’t want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around… don’t want to be a piece of furniture in films.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Both my kids are above 30 now… grown up enough to take their own decisions.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

No, there is no ‘need’ for me to do a social cinema.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I know for a fact that many people repent and want to do away with their tattoos. It is all marketing and hype and nothing else. Also, tattoos stand out on fair and not wheatish complexion. God has given you a body. Why spoil it?

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I neither throw my weight around nor do I bully anyone on the set.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

There’s no formula that can make a marriage work. Sometimes two people just click.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Trust me; I have not exactly been the best husband material.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

In our country, there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don’t have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

No actor has 100 percent track record.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Some films will work, some won’t.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

The fire within you as an actor should always keep burning. That should be the mantra for any good actor.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

What I admire about Ranbir is his choice of films. Sometimes he will be bad; sometimes he will be good.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I have worked with Asin earlier in ‘Housefull 2.’ We had a good time working together.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I came into films when there was action. When I retired, it was romantic period.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am not because of my father, and my son Ranbir Kapoor is not because of me.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I firmly believe in destiny, so let’s see what my luck has in store for me.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

It’s always such a delight working with Juhi.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I would love to do a Punjabi film.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I have played all generations in reel and real life – grandson, son, father, and grandfather – and each relationship has taught me something.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Amitabh Bachchan is the greatest actor that we have in the country.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

There would be no ‘Sholay’ without Dharmendra, no ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ without Vinod Khanna and , no ‘Deewar’ without Shashi Kapoor, and no ‘Dostana’ without Shatrughan Sinha.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

An actor’s journey is never fulfilled. We always look for greener pastures, better roles, better creativity. We all want to do good work.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Though sometimes you hit, sometimes you don’t get the kind of roles you should get, but sometimes you get the role.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won’t work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

If you want to show cinema, make entertainment films. Sometimes they are very good, sometimes very bad, but the intention is always to make entertaining films.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Ranbir doesn’t like to portray characters which are larger than life. I am very proud that he took such challenges.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

He is absolutely on his own, and we never interfere in any of his decisions. When Ranbir joined the industry, he told his mother that he wanted to portray characters which a boy of his age would do in real life.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I always wanted to be an actor.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

My image was that of a romantic, soft hero.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I always try to be different and play varied kind of characters.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am not stagnating in one kind of an image.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I will not do a run of the mill kind of a film or role. I will not say yes to that.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I only know how to act. I don’t know anything else.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

For the first 25 years of my career, I did nothing but sing and dance.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Every one has right to express his views on any subject, and I am a common man, a tax payer, and part of the society.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I have no enmity with anyone.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

My head was in the clouds after ‘Bobby,’ but my struggle had only begun because at the age of 21, I had become a hero. But then I had realized that I have to keep my feet on ground.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Passion for work is very important.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

The first song I ever did on screen was ‘Main Shaayar To Nahi.’

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Even my early memories of Chandni Chowk are all about food.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

People are fed up of formula films, and we are getting new space to experiment.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

It is an advantage to be born in Kapoor family and to be known by that name, but it also a burden because there are lots of expectations from you.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

There is no nepotism in the Hindi film industry.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I like to call myself as son of famous father and father of famous son.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am no champion, no great name, just a small actor who loves working for cinema.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am observing that to become an actor, people say, they want to join gym. Why join a gym? Why don’t you join an institute where they teach you how to act?

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I don’t know why all these actors think going to a gym or riding horses or learning how to fight are the steps to becoming an actor.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

By the grace of God, my son’s career is doing very well.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of it.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

There is no way one can remake ‘Mughal-e-Azam.’ What my grandfather did, we cannot even think of emulating. The film is a legend, and we should leave it at that.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Give me meaty roles, and I’ll sink my teeth into them!

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am waiting for roles like the one in ‘Yeh Hai Jalwa.’

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I do not care about the length of my role. But it should make a difference to the story.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

In the first 20 years of my acting life, I did not do any acting. All I did was to wear a jersey, dance, lip-sync to songs, and run after girls over mountains and in the snow.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

The reality is that some Kapoors did reach the marquee; others did not.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

As is the case with politicians, actors are chosen by people.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

There are ups and downs in every relationship. But that does not mean that couples should separate or get down to inhuman behaviour.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I don’t know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people’s private lives.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

The R K banner has had this tradition to make good films, and good films always take a lot of time to complete because of the hassles involved.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Personally, I think that the story is all-important; everything else comes later. But if there’s any other way to ensure the betterment of the film, I always implement it.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

It’s my life – acting.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

When I did ‘Kapoor & Sons,’ I had a prosthetic look. It would take me six-and-a-half hours daily for 20, 25 days.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I can barely sit in one place for five minutes.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

The creative mind is restless.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across a character that reminds you of that instance, you incorporate it.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I’m not interested in playing the villain as a loud caricature, one-dimensional character. I am trying to humanise evil. If you see my character in ‘Aurangzeb,’ I am not trying to act evil.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don’t agree with?

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I respect religious rules. I am a true God-fearing Hindu.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I am not advocating beef eating. But I am advocating freedom to have an opinion and a voice.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

If you want rubbish, you will get rubbish.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

It was a stroke of luck when I worked in ‘Agneepath.’ It was a great role, something different for me.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

I have tried to look different and play different roles through my life because I am passionate about my work.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

My first love is acting, not directing.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

My entire family has been part of the film industry for many years.

Actor, Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

My own laugh is the real thing and I’ve had it all my life.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

The last thing I’d learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing at you.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

There’s so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

I’ve been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

You know you’re old if your walker has an airbag.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller

I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.

Actor, Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller