"Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them." — Antonio Bander, Spanish-American actor, born 1960
"I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one." — Antonio Banderas, Spanish-American actor, born 1960
"To Alef, the letter, that begins the alphabets of both Arabic and Hebrew–two Semitic languages, sisters for centuries. May we find the language that takes us to the only home there is – one another's hearts. Alef knows that a thread of a story stitches together a wound." — Ibtisam Barakat, Palestinian-American poet, born 1963
"When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life." — Brigitte Bardot, French actress, born 1934
"If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier." — Brigitte Bardot, French actress, born 1934
"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals." — Brigitte Bardot, French actress, born 1934
"But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye... but what do we do in our society, in our civilization, to continue this process?" — Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli conductor, born 1942
"Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity." — Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli conductor, born 1942
"There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle." — Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli conductor, born 1942
"And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear." — Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli conductor, born 1942
"I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient." — Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon, born 1922
"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned." — Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon, born 1922