If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.

Koren Zailckas

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Jose Mourinho

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Billy Graham

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Thomas Kempis

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

Lasse Hallstrom

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

Bertrand Russell

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

Sofia Coppola

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting.

Todd Ruthman

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Herbert Read