Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

- Audrey Hepburn

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

- Liane Moriarty

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

- Jon Scieszka

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

- Michael Trucco

Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

- Ben Shapiro

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

- Mika Brzezinski

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

- Jean Paul

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

- Isla Fisher

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

- Voltaire

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.

- Jason Mitchell