Kevin Smith - I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.
Ranbir Kapoor - I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
Rachael Ray - I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
Alessandro Michele - My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.
Roy Orbison - When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.
Samantha Bee - I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
Poo Bear - When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.
George Ezra - I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer.
Rakesh Sharma - There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.
Cardi B - My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.
Thomas S. Monson - As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
Kell Brook - I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.
Sayaji Shinde - Everybody should plant a tree on any happy occasion or birthday and celebrate.
Harold Pinter - My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Steven Wright - For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Kristin Kreuk - When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.
Daniel Handler - I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
Kirstie Alley - I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
Robert Frost - A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Ashley Jensen - As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.
David Ulevitch - My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
Audrey Hepburn - Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Guy Johnson - My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
Rodney Dangerfield - With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Gloria Stuart - When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
The Ultimate Warrior - Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?
Victor Cruz - My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
Bret Hart - Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday.
Mary Steenburgen - I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
Liv Tyler - I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Mikhail Baryshnikov - I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
Barry White - I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
Julianna Margulies - The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
Molly Sims - My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.
Debbie Macomber - I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.
Steven Wright - I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Stephen Hopkins - I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
Buddy Valastro - Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
Karl Jaspers - Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Jean Paul - Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Aimee Bender - I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
Samuel Johnson - The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Sloane Crosley - I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
George Harrison - All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
Lewis Carroll - There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Sam Levenson - It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
Robert Staughton Lynd - Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Anne Lamott - The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
Sammy Hagar - Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Kristin Armstrong - I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.
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