“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.”

“I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.”

“I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.”

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.”

“All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.”

“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.'”

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”

“If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.”

“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”

“I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'”

“My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.”

“I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.”

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

“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.”

“I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.”

“I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.”

“For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.”

“My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.”

“Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.”

“The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.”