When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.

Steven Wright

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Thornton Wilder

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Herman Hesse

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

Tim Meadows

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

Mark Twain

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Billy Strayhorn

Love is like the measles, we all have to go through it.

Jerome K Jerome

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

John Berger

There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth.From speech in an Olympic Education event, 4 November 2000.

Voula Patoulidou

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Alice Hoffman