People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.

I'm addicted to directing!

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.

It is difficult to fill a broken vessel, and impossible to fill a leaking one.

The fictitious kleptomaniac's only crime was stealing imaginations

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.