Charles Dickens Quotes

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

I'm actually a pretty clean-cut person.

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

We can't be tamed at all. We've never been that kind of group. We always used to talk about how our image was as big as our sound.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.

Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Making that statement of 'I'm not afraid to be untamed.' It's just kind of the marriage of those two things.

Wildness is my suiting scene.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.