Study for Knowledge, not for marks. If you have the Knowledge, you will get the marks.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.