"You can be the perfect parent, getting everybody into doing the perfect things at the perfect school to make them the perfect kids. But really, you're in the lap of the gods. You can't really do fuck-all about what paths they chose. They have ultimate control and it's scary."
— Jack Nicholson
"My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad."
— Hugh Jackman
"My father would always tell us, 'Don't tell me what you're going to
do, show me what you're going to do, or let me read about what you're
doing.' Point being: Shut up and do the work. The same goes for being a
really good father. To me, it means putting in the time. Like anything
else, the more you put in, the more you get out of it."
— Ed Burns, actor and director
"My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more that anything else. It's not talked about that much.... I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.... My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear the next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. Anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense."
— Hugh Jackman
"You don't learn much when you're talking."
— Jack Nicholson
"Life is short, art is long."
— Hippocrates
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
— Thomas Merton
"I am still learning."
— Michelangelo
"The least of learning is done in the classrooms."
— Thomas Merton
"Respect motivates me, not success."
— Hugh Jackman
"Everybody's afraid of something. That's how we know we care about things."
— Frank Farmer, played by Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard
"Once off to a good start in giving vent to his spleen, the Old Man does not cool down soon or easily. His testiness and vituperation seem to feed on his own language. Without interrupting his supervision of the work in hand, he discoursed in a loud voice about deficiencies in the third officer's ancestry, complexion, character, courage, and ability. He accused him of unmentionable vices and called him various uncomplimentary names. As you may guess (I will not repeat) the hairy-chested words the captain actually used, but altogether it was a painful display of browbeating.... (Today) the Old Man is in high spirits.... The skipper and I get along famously, thus far. Before breakfast, he is inclined to be grumpy, as he admits, but for the rest of the day he is as gentle as a lamb, unless something riles him – bawdy language among the men, for example. That usually leads to a gentle admonition to all concerned that he'll be goddamned if he'll stand for one such word from any Christless bastard on board. After supper I jolly him into a talkative mood, and he yarns about the sea, islands of palm or ice, whales, porpoises, birds, fish, and mighty sea-farin' men. Since 1883 he has commanded ten whalers, including the famous barks Bertha, Lydia, Swallow, and Wanderer. He has his own saga and his odyssey. Calms put him in low spirits. The harder the wind blows, the merrier he becomes."
— Robert Cushman Murphy, Logbook For Grace
"(The picture I look at daily) is a photo of a little girl named Abby. I met her in hospice when she was three and diagnosed with a terminal illness. She was such a brave little girl and so determined, but everyone insisted she was going to die and kept telling me not to get my hopes up. I also have another photo of her. She's 24 and in her wedding dress. She and her husband now have two children of their own, and they've adopted two more. Miracles happen.... (The death of a child) was my greatest fear about becoming a doctor, and one I had to face multiple times. These kids are my heroes.... You realize you could just stand among them, many of whom have lost their hair and are undergoing painful treatments, and feel hopeless. But you have to equip yourself to make a difference, to step close enough to the fire to get burned yourself."
— Dr. Chuck Dietzen, formerly a medical director of pediatric hospice
"I don't (have balance in my life). There's always been days when it doesn't really work out. Sometimes I'd get physically ill from the guilt of wanting to please everyone – that's my nature – I hate anyone to be unhappy. But I think my spiritual journey is to have had these weird relationships and write music that people can somehow relate to. I've never had a record that is almost all about being happy and in love."
— Gwen Stefani, mother of three, creator of a clothing line (L.A.M.B.), businesswoman, musician
"One does not escape that easily from the seduction of an effete way of life. You cannot arbitrarily say to yourself, I will now continue my life as it was before this thing, Success, happened to me. But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with the conflict removed, man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and that the fangs of this wolf are all little vanities and conceits and laxities that Success is heir to."
— Tennessee Williams
"You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it."
— Russell Crowe
"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."
— Russell Crowe
"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England, and if the continent of Africa disappeared from a Martian attack."
— Russell Crowe
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
— W. B. Yeats
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
— W. B. Yeats
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire."
— W. B. Yeats
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
— W. B. Yeats
"Don't count the days, make the days count."
— Muhammad Ali
"I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was."
— Muhammad Ali
"I'm teaching my daughter that the sun goes down each night because it's mad at her. Probably gonna write a book on parenting at some point."
— Ryan Reynolds
"I'd walk through fire for my daughter. Well not FIRE, because it's dangerous. But a super humid room. But not too humid, because my hair."
— Ryan Reynolds
"On our 6am walk, my daughter asked where the moon goes each morning. I let her know it's in heaven, visiting daddy's freedom."
— Ryan Reynolds
"It's important kids eat 5 servings of vegetables daily. Even if
childhood is just a dress-rehearsal for extraordinary adult suffering."
— Ryan Reynolds
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