George C. Scott

“I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. I think all the courage that I may lack personally, I have as an actor.”

Kristen Stewart

“I don’t want to make movies for kids, and I don’t want to make movies for adults either.”

Johnny Thunders

“Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.”

Patti Smith

“When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.”

Richard Hell

“I always just had this urge to just take off, so at least once a year I would run away from home, just to get out from under any restrictions, ... That was a big part of my conception of myself, running away.”

Deborah Harry

“Performing in front of a camera is a new adventure for me. It's a new and much more intellectual process. Music is more of the moment, more spiritual. It's an event! (from an early 80s interview)”

Van Morrison

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”

Joni Mitchell

“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.”

Neil Diamond

The Band

“By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn’t a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.” [Levon Helm]

Bob Dylan

“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”

Nico

“It's a continual battle, a drama, being a stranger to myself. I don't have any references to know who I really am. I mean everyday.”

Jack Kerouac

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

Gregory Corso

“They, that unnamed "they", they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.”

Allen Ginsberg

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.”

Jon Voight

“You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.”

Joaquin Phoenix

“I never think that I'm good at anything I do. I can always do it better, I know my weakness. I've never been perfect.”

Slavoj Žižek

“Tolerance makes everything boring, we need more conflict!”

Ellen Burstyn

“Acting feels like a congenital condition to me – it’s in my genes.”

Jennifer Connelly

“I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.”

Marlon Wayans

Alec Baldwin

“I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.”

Adrien Brody

“When you're the one character that changes dramatically in the movie ... it better be a change for the better.”

Harvey Pekar

Jack Black

“You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow. ”

Paul Giamatti

“I`ve got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I`m like a zeta male.”

John Turturro

“I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors.”

Joan Cusack

“I was never the ‘babe,’ so I knew I’d never get those big roles. I’d always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.”

Hank Azaria

Susan Sarandon

“You have to be careful not to be upstaged by your breasts. I’ve gotten curvier as I`ve gotten older. Directors cast the men they want to be and the women they want to have.”