Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that’s – that’s what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage. – David Wenham
People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it’s funny. If it’s too dirty or wrong, they won’t laugh. But if it’s a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it. – Michael Patrick King
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. – Peter Benchley
I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower – then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it’s exhilarating. – Drew Barrymore
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling. – Catherine McAuley
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro. – Emily Perkins
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. – Erica Jong
I like Noah from ‘The Notebook.’ One – hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard. – Camila Cabello
I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds. – Chris Benz
I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers. – Claudia Schiffer
I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I’d love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, ‘Make America great again.’ – Donald Trump
Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us. – MC Hammer
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. – Danielle Steel
Red is the great clarifier – bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red – it would be like becoming bored with the person you love. – Diana Vreeland
That’s the whole spiritual life. It’s learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love. – Eugene H. Peterson
It wasn’t really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don’t know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess. – Calvin Johnson
Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline. – Demetri Martin
I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it’s expensive. – Ellie Goulding
I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I’d love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I’ve always just admired – the work of other artists. – Dan Bucatinsky
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. – Mary Astell
When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, ‘I love it – no matter how old I get, people are going to think that’s what I look like.’ – Frank Abagnale