“The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.”

People are ugly not in their face but in their thoughts. So never get impressed by someone’s appearance, rather dig deep down into their thoughts to reveal the real person inside out

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Men always makes gods in their own image.

I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone is beautiful in their own way and that’s what makes us special

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together.

I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

We look for the privilege to have our influence in propelling the reason for national protection and national solidarity. In any case, absolutely, there can be no obvious national solidarity where one-tenth of the populace is denied their essential rights as American residents.

We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.