"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."

Vries, Peter De on popularity   

"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."

Mizner, Wilson on popularity   

"In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice."

Shaw, George Bernard on plays   

"Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king."

Hull, Josephine on plays   

"The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited."

Hammerstein, Oscar on plays   

"When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you."

Lange, Jessica on detachment   

"I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!"

Lansbury, Angela on acting and actors   

"I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with."

Lawless, Lucy on acting and actors   

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."

Lear, Norman on things and little things
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"Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe."

Leary, Denis on life
7 fans of this quote   

"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."

Lee, Bruce on enemies
3 fans of this quote   

"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Perls, Fritz Dr. on expectation
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"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Kurosawa, Akiro on sanity
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"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."

Kubrick, Stanley on nations
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"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."

Korda, Michael on success
3 fans of this quote   

"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."

Korda, Michael on failure
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"I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving."

Kline, Kevin on acting and actors   

"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."

Kinison, Sam on marriage   

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

King, Stephen on fiction
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"Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

King, Stephen on enemies
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"I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam."

King, Larry on drivers and driving   

"As you think, so shall you become."

Lee, Bruce on thoughts and thinking
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"It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do."

Lee, Spike on passion   

"I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either."

Leoni, Tea on acting and actors   

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip."

Leonard, Elmore on strategies   

"If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates."

Leno, Jay on elections   

"The more I see the less I know for sure."

Lennon, John on certainty
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"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."

Lennon, John on love
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"We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity."

Lennon, John on jesus christ
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"My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple."

Lennon, John on inhibition   

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

Lennon, John on god
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"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."

Lennon, John on getting ahead   

"Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor."

Lemmon, Jack on money   

"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball."

Lemmon, Jack on golf   

"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

Leigh, Jennifer Jason on timidity   

"I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me."

Leigh, Jennifer Jason on fulfillment   

"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

Leifer, Carol on exercise
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"I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!"

Lehrer, Tom on communication
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"Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]"

Letterman, David on advice   

"I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow."

King, B. B. on plagiarism