From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

Plato

You die in the middle of your life.

John Green

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Oskar Werner

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.

Mark Twain

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

David Fincher

I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.

Ashley Benson

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Edward F. Halifax

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

Woody Allen

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Louise Kapp Howe

Love is free. Don't dare save it.

Louise Philippe Dulay

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

Christopher Walken