No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Sam Mendes

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

Mark Wahlberg

There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.

Evan Peters

Conscience is a man's compass.

Vincent Van Gogh

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

John Malkovich

This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Peter Farrelly

The alembic of English tolerance has operated by now on the newer arrivals as well. Their sons have taken part in English life, contributed to English achievement, striven for England's betterment, shed their blood in England's wars.

Cecil Roth

Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party

Oscar Wilde