Denied quotes

In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Until the moment I came out as a gay, I have kept my personal life and my career strictly separate from each other. No one was supposed to know that I'm gay. This game of hide-and-seek was incredibly strenuous and it took a lot of energy out of me. Now I'm hoping that I can put that energy into my training.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank