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• James Franco (b. April 19): “You want to be interesting? Be interested.”
• Jayne Mansfield (b. April 19): “Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.”
• Conan O’Brien (b. April 18): “Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.”
• Thornton Wilder (b. April 17): “An incinerator is a writer’s best friend.”
• Victoria Beckham (b. April 17): “As a performer you’re a celebrity, but you’re not saving lives.”
• Kingsley Amis (b. April 16): “If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.”
• Charlie Chaplin (b. April 16): “In the end, everything’s a gag.”
• Jeffrey Archer (b. April 15): “There’s no substitute for reading great novelists.”
• Leonardo da Vinci (b. April 15): “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
• Bruce Sterling (b. April 14): “Embrace your nerditude.”
• Loretta Lynn (b. April 14): “I pray for answers to my problems.”
• Samuel Beckett (b. April 13): “We are all born mad.”
• David Letterman (b. April 12): “I can’t sing, dance or act.”
• Thomas Harris (b. April 11): “Fear comes with imagination…”
• Anton LaVey (b. April 11): “Satan has been the best friend the Church ever had.”
• Anne Lamott (b. April 10): “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.”
• Joseph Pulitzer (b. April 10): “The power to mold the future will be in the hands of journalists.”
• Charles Baudelaire (b. April 9th): “Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us.”
• Hugh Hefner (b. April 9th): “Picasso had his blue period; I’m in my blonde period.”
• Barbara Kingsolver (b. April 8th): “I struggle with confidence, every time.”
• James Herbert (b. April 8th): “I’m not just in it for the gore.”
• Donald Barthelme (b. April 7th): “I’m interested in the ugly sentence that is also beautiful.”
• Billie Holiday (b. April 7th): “I’m always making a comeback…”
• Charles Jackson (b. April 6th): “The writer lives by biting the hand that feeds him.”
• Merle Haggard (b. April 6th): “I had more freedom on parole than in America right now.”
• Richard Peck (b. April 5th): “Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”
• Arthur Hailey (b. April 5th): “A writer has to experience new environments.”
• Bette Davis (b. April 5th): “A sure way to lose happiness…”
• Muddy Waters (b. April 4th): “I been in the blues all my life.”
• Marlon Brando (b. April 3rd): “Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse.”
• Reginald Hill (b. April 3rd): “You’re never alone with a novel. “
• Alec Baldwin (b. April 3rd): “Sex is like a Chinese dinner…”
• Christopher Meloni (b. April 2nd): “I’m a nudist at heart…”
• Émile Zola (b. April 2nd): “I am here to live out loud.”
• Marvin Gaye (b. April 2nd): “Music, not sex, got me aroused.”
• Abraham Maslow (b. April 1st): “The story of the human race: men and women selling themselves short.”
• Milan Kundera (b. April 1st): “All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.”
• Otto von Bismarck (b. April 1st): “Laws are like sausages…”
• René Descartes (b. March 31): “You just keep pushing…”
• Sean O’Casey (b. March 30): “Money doesn’t make you happy but it quiets the nerves.”
• Paul Verlaine (b. March 30): “The poet is a madman lost in adventure.”
• Vincent Van Gogh ( b. March 30): “I put my heart into my work, and lost my mind.”
• Elle Macpherson (b. March 29): “A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market…”
• Jo Nesbø (b. March 29): “It’s impossible to write anything without being political.”
• Pearl Bailey (b. March 29): “The worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self.”
• Maxim Gorky (b. March 28): “Science is the intellect of the world, art its soul.”
• Lady Gaga (b. March 28): “I don’t see myself in terms of artifice.”
• Quentin Tarantino (b. March 27): “I was excited about going to jail the first time.”
• Mariah Carey (b. March 27): “I’m not vain, I’m insecure.”
• Steven Tyler (b. March 26): “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
• Sarah Jessica Parker (b. March 25): “Let your freak flag fly.”
• Harry Houdini (b. March 24): “Don’t bite off red-hot iron unless you have a good set of teeth.”
• Jim Parsons (b. March 24): “Intelligence is sexy until it becomes irritating…”
• Jonathan Ames (b. March 23): “I don’t know what’s more difficult, life or the English language.”
• Joan Crawford (b. March 23): “I need sex for a clear complexion.”
• Erich Fromm (b. March 23): “We do not understand our dreams…”
• William Shatner (b. March 22): “There’s an ecstasy about doing something on film.”
• Gary Oldman (b. March 21): “Women are stronger than men.”
• J.S. Bach (b. March 21): “The aim of music should be the refreshment of the soul.”
• B.F. Skinner (b. March 20): “Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.”
• Spike Lee (b. March 20): “Parents kill more dreams than anybody…”
• Bruce Willis (b. March 19): “Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks.”
• Richard Condon (b. March 18): “Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.”
• Queen Latifah (b. March 18): “I don’t know how to be anyone else.”
• John Updike (b. March 18): “Writers dare to go it alone…”
• Billy Corgan (b. March 17): “I’m viewed as this weird, crippled character.”
• Jerry Lewis (b. March 16): “People hate me because I’m a genius.”
• Alice Hoffman (b. March 16): “Books may well be the only true magic.”
• Bernardo Bertolucci (b. March 16): “I left the ending ambiguous…”
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b. March 15): “Fight for the things that you care about.”
• Algernon Blackwood (b. March 14): “No man can describe to another the magic of the woman who ensnares him.”
• Michael Caine (b. March 14): “I feel a tremendous sadness for men…”
• Adam Clayton (b. March 13): “I’m drawn to things that are sexy or aggressive.”
• William Macy (b. March 13): “I’m sure I have a process…”
• Jack Kerouac (b. March 12): “Great things are not done by those who yield to trends.”
• James Taylor (b. March 12): “We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.”
• Douglas Adams (b. March 11): “I love the whooshing sound of deadlines as they go by.”
• Rupert Murdoch (b. March 11): “Big will not beat small anymore…”
• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (b. March 10): “Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.”
• Bobby Fischer (b. March 9th): “I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.”
• Neil Postman (b. March 8th): “In Russia, writers with grievances are arrested; in America they go on TV talk shows where only their development is arrested.”
• Piet Mondrian (b. March 7th): “The artist is a channel.”
• Bryan Cranston (b. March 7th): “Any one of us could become dangerous.”
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. March 6th): “Literature is nothing but carpentry…”
• Shaquille O’Neal (b. March 6th): “I want to be known as The Big Shakespeare.”
• Andy Gibb (b. March 5th): “Girls are always running through my mind.”
• Eva Mendes (b. March 5th): “I’m definitely responsible for the image I put out there…”
• Khaled Hosseini (b. March 4th): “Literary fiction is kept alive by women…”
• Chaz Bono (b. March 4th): “Gender’s between your ears, not between your legs.”
• Jessica Biel (b. March 3rd): “I think I could drink my own blood…”
• Jean Harlow (b. March 3rd): “I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.”
• Lou Reed (b. March 2nd): “I don’t believe in dressing up reality.”
• John Irving (b. March 2nd): “You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
• Jon Bon Jovi (b. March 2nd): “Nothing is as important as passion…”
• Ralph Ellison (b. March 1st): “Writing requires plunging back into the shadow of the past…”
• Javier Bardem (b. March 1st): “I don’t see this heart-throb thing.”
• Linus Pauling (b. February 28): “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
• Brian Jones (b. February 28): “We piss anywhere, man.”
• Josh Groban (b. February 27): “Don’t try to be like me…”
• John Steinbeck (b. February 27): “A journey is like a marriage.”
• Elizabeth George (b. February 26): “I have to know the killer…”
• Johnny Cash (b. February 26): “Success is worrying about everything except money.”
• George Harrison (b. February 25): “You’ve got as many lives as you like…”
• Chelsea Handler (b. February 25): “I didn’t become a comedian to work this hard.”
• Steve Jobs (b. Feb 24): “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter.”
• Peter Fonda (b. February 23): “I don’t trust anybody who didn’t inhale.”
• Johnny Winter (b. February 23): “People need the blues.”
• Drew Barrymore (b. February 22): “Love is the hardest habit to break.”
• Richard North Patterson (b. February 22): “There’s a wonderful freedom to being a novelist.”
• Luis Bunuel (b. February 22): “I can only wait for the final amnesia…”
• Ellen Page (b. February 21): “The relationships with my girl friends are so powerful…”
• Anais Nin (b. February 21): “If you don’t cry out or sing, then don’t write.”
• Kurt Cobain (b. February 20): “I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not.”
• Nicolaus Copernicus (b. February 19): “To know what we do not know is true knowledge”
• Toni Morrison (b. February 18): “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self… is the test of their power.”
• Yoko Ono (b. February 18): “Everybody’s an artist.”
• Michael Jordan (b. February 17): “The game is my wife…”
• Billie Joe Armstrong (b. February 17): “Obnoxious got me where I am today.”
• Ice-T (b. February 16): “Everybody wants to redeem themselves…”
• Galileo Galilei (b. Feb 15): “Nature is relentless and unchangeable.”
• Matt Groening (b. February 15): “You’ve got to embrace the future…”
• Carl Bernstein (b. February 14): “Weird, stupid and coarse are becoming cultural norms…”
• Jack Benny (b. February 14): “Married 47 years and never had an argument.”
• Peter Gabriel (b. February 13): “Music is a living thing with an evolution.”
• Ray Manzarek (b. February 12): “Psychedelics put you in touch with the creator.”
• Charles Darwin (b. February 12): “A man who wastes time has not discovered the value of life.”
• Jennifer Aniston (b. February 11): “True love brings up everything…”
• Boris Pasternak (b. February 10): “I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled…”
• Bertolt Brecht (b. February 10): “Unhappy the land in need of heroes.”
• Brendan Behan (b. February 9th): “I’m a drinker with writing problems.”
• Carole King (b. February 9th): “I used to hate the sound of my voice.”
• John Grisham (b. February 8th): “My only plan was to keep writing books.”
• James Dean (b. February 8th): “Acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest…”
• Ashton Kutcher (b. February 7th): “Don’t settle for what life gives you…”
• Garth Brooks (b. February 7th): “The greatest conflicts lie within.”
• Bob Marley (b. February 6th): “None but ourselves can free our minds.”
• Ronald Reagan (b. February 6th): “The Ten Commandments and Congress…”
• William S. Burroughs (b. February 5th): “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change.”
• Don Cherry (b. February 5th): “I think I’m a good Canadian…”
• Alice Cooper (b. February 4th): “Getting drunk & stoned is easy.”
• Rosa Parks (b. February 4th): “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…”
• Norman Rockwell (b. February 3rd): “The secret is not to look back.”
• James Joyce (b. February 2nd): “Men are governed by lines of intellect.”
• Shakira (b. February 2nd): “Writing songs has a therapeutic effect.”
• S.J. Perelman (b. February 1st): “All of us have only one personality.”
• Ronda Rousey (b. February 1st): “I’m scared all the time…”
• Norman Mailer (b. January 31): “Style is character.”
• Justin Timberlake (b. January 31): “I’m completely removed from any hype that comes my way.”
• Vanessa Redgrave (b. January 30): “Integrity is so perishable.”
• Oprah Winfrey (b. January 29): “Be thankful for what you have.”