We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc.