That's all there is; there isn't any more.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

That's all there is; there isn't any more.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties the many false starts and the painful groping.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Into the sky to win or die.

I definitely regret the surgeries that I have had over the years, I think I was so young and in such an unstable situation in my life with so much going on and so much pressure.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts.

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

It's a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly.

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.

My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

Good leaders reach solutions and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

The practice of law requires both continuity and growth - a deep understanding of legal principles born of reason, tradition, and experience and tested by time, but also a mind alert to present needs and the future consequences of public and private legal decisions.

The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.