Real movie producers aren't this nice.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.

Follow your passion.

The studio should not have released this film.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

I liked television, and television liked me.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

This is a bit of curveball, but people who are really good kissers never have anything given to them.

You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

I've learned all my hair and makeup tricks on the set, and I incorporate all kinds of things when I'm getting ready, and I'm big on blotting papers. I get a very shiny forehead, which I like to call my inner glow coming out.

Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.

Childhood is a short season.

Pain + Reflection = Progress

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

She wanted to tell him she missed him but she knew it wouldn't change anything so she kept pretending she didn't.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.