How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Frank Dane

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

Marilyn Monroe

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Proverb

My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.

Ashton Kutcher

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

Wallace Shawn

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Plato

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Janice Dickinson

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

Minnie Driver