"I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it."

3 quotes

🇺🇸Mckenna Grace

Music

b. 2006

"I became a vegetarian because I felt really bad for the animals and I love them a lot. Animals are very sweet, and I don't think that they deserve to be tortured."

"Why work alone if you don’t have to? It’s all give and take. It’s all about listening to others and contributing. Even if you didn’t want to act, improv classes are great, because they teach you about conversation."

"I despise those prick actors who say, "I was in character," and "I became the character," and all that stuff. It's hideous. It's just masturbation at the highest level."

"It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate... I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination."

"First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect."

"I’m much more emotional than Mr. Spock. Spock rarely betrays what he is thinking or feeling. He’s fun to portray. But I hope I won’t explode one of these days."

"I love champions. A champion has something special about him."

7 quotes

🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (politician)

Politics

1934–2019

"Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today."

54 quotes

🇦🇹Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics

b. 1947

"When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot."

"Someone said that Capitalism will eat itself, and I think that’s like the meat industry, the meat industry itself will become dead meat and compassion will reign supreme."

"House of Cards - Gli intrighi del potere – serie TV, 14 episodi"

"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."

66 quotes

🇺🇸Michelle Trachtenberg

Entertainment

1985–2025

"I've had experiences before where a director is like, "Yeah, I wanted a blonde." Have you heard of hair dye?"

"The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'"

"People say to me all the time, "You have no fear." I tell them, "No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person."

"I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for."

"As a child in North London it never crossed my mind that I would ever play the Wicked Witch of the East."

"Malek has about three facial expressions in his arsenal, so his eyes do a lot of the work on Mr. Robot."

"If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?"

"I do want to dress up. I still want to have the experience. It’ll be probably just my family over here, but I definitely want to pull a look and maybe just walk my living room carpet."

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"It is not size or age or childishness that separates children from adults. It is "responsibility."

"I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business."

"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."

"Fred, what happened to your ass?" "Oh, the fat guy at the office sneezed on me."

25 quotes

🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (musician)

Music

1951–2024

"Every time you step out on to the stage, you learn something which helps you grow and be a better communicator. It’s not like you’re the master. You’re always a student."

"P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!"

"If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned."

"It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"Roz is in Hollywood, but she's not of it."

"After seeing me perform in the drama Montserrat on public TV, a critic in Philadelphia wrote, I didn't know he could act."

"I like pistachio and mint chip. So I'm a green ice cream kind of guy."

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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*"

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"And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."

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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

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"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

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