There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

Cher

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Bette Midler

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

Robert Holman

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

you don't know until you know!

Ruth Lizana-Jackson

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

Shirley MacLaine

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Ken Kesey

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

Tim Robbins

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

Todd Barry

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Michelangelo Antonioni