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Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.