The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

A man should be what he can do.

And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a citywhose walls were constantly under siege....

There's been a lot to get used to here." Esther laughed. "Isn't that the truth. I don't know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can't stand to be anywhere else.

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

It is time for us to come together as one united people.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.