It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

Christina Applegate

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

Sara Gruen

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

Tim Robbins

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Meg Cabot

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

Paulo Coelho

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Barack Obama

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Paul Simon

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Rudyard Kipling

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Robert Carlyle

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Jason Aldean

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Phillips Brooks

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Ludwig Wittgenstein