When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
George O Neil
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
Gene Hackman
Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them.
William Saroyan
For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
Warren Beatty
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert Redford
If they [presidents] can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks
I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?
Anne Bancroft
Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.
Oliver Bevan
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
Carl Bernstein
I don't believe you on the 'Jimmy' story. No, I don't, and I'm going to prove it if it's the last thing I do.
Bob Woodward
Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
William Goldman
I have to act to live.
Sir Lawrence Olivier
I have always been so sure — too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..." ~ Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Jessica Lange
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
Tom Cruise
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
Sean Connery
I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
Matthew Broderick
Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?
Steven Spielberg
There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.
Rene Russo
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Kevin Spacey
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
Brad Pitt
I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
John Travolta
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
David Mamet
We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
Sharon Stone
"You wait and you wait for somethin' big to happen... and then you find out you gon' die.
Queen Latifah
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.
John Grisham
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frohman
I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste... The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?
Johnny Depp
The best mind-altering drug is truth.
Lily Tomlin
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
Robert De Niro
No fan of corporate conglomerates, he once expressed his disdain this way.