Television

🇺🇸Courteney Cox

Entertainment

b. 1964

"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."

🇬🇧Lucy Worsley

History

b. 1973

"My main job as a curator is to try to get people interested in history, to visit our palaces, to enjoy themselves, and to learn something, too. I try to do the same with my books, to entertain as well as to inform."

🇺🇸Lupe Ontiveros

Entertainment

1942–2012

"It's upsetting to any culture when that is the only projection you have of that culture…You're pigeon-holed, stereotyped. That means we don't like you. We forget that this country was founded by immigrants."

🇺🇸John F. MacArthur

Religion

1939–2025

"You would be better off, frankly, to use the name of Jesus Christ or God in an occasional curse word than to live an ongoing, hypocritical life that blasphemes His name from beginning to end."

🇺🇸Loni Anderson

Entertainment

1945–2025

"I'm a real woman with a real heart and I have to live with a beautiful body and a pretty face which is not nearly as easy as it sounds."

🇺🇸Clancy Brown

Entertainment

b. 1959

"First time directors - they may not make good movies all the time but they are always the best directors to work for because they’re always so excited, always so committed to what they’re trying to do."

🇨🇦Ruth Ozeki

Literature

b. 1956

"As a writer you wait around for inspiration; this book is about what happens when a character taps a writer on the shoulder and calls her into being; it's about the character creating a novelist."

🇬🇧Jonathan Miller

Entertainment

1934–2019

"Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions."

🇬🇧Noel Fielding

Entertainment

b. 1973

"I used to suck until they were all white, let them dry, and then put them back in the packet and show my mum the Smarties with no colour on them."

🇬🇧Roger Moore

Entertainment

1927–2017

"I’ve been very fortunate and very lucky in life and I’d urge anyone to follow their hearts and find their true vocation. Life is so much more pleasant when you love going to work."

Hana Maria Pravda

Entertainment

1916–2008

"We had so little to eat, we were freezing all the time, but the sheer joy of being able to act fed our souls."

🇬🇧Pamela Franklin

Entertainment

b. 1950

"You know films are a great medium to be stuck with. I wouldn't have missed my movie experiences for anything."

🇺🇸Irene Dunne

Entertainment

1898–1990

"In addition to actual dramatic training and experience, I'd want as much education as possible."

🇬🇧Nigel Rees

Literature

b. 1944

"I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

🇺🇸Henry Fonda

Entertainment

1905–1982

"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."

🇯🇵Ishirō Honda

Entertainment

1911–1993

"Ghidrah was merely meant to be a modern interpretation of the eight-headed snake of Japanese myth."

🇬🇧Russell Tovey

Entertainment

b. 1981

"As an actor, I’m always in clothes that I wouldn’t necessarily choose to wear myself."

🇺🇸Jim Brown

Social Activism

1936–2023

"He told me, 'Make sure when anyone tackles you, he remembers how much it hurts.' He lived by that philosophy and I always followed that advice."

🇬🇧Will Self

Literature

b. 1961

"Will Self article in Issue 08 of TATE ETC. magazine"

🇺🇸Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)

Journalism

b. 1949

"We'll do it live... WE'LL DO IT LIVE! DO IT LIVE... look, I'll write it and we'll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!"