Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

Teresa Mummert

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

Better to die, and sleepThe never-waking sleep, than linger onAnd dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

Sophocles, Ajax (circa 409 B.C.)

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

Regis Philbin

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.

Thomas More

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Dale Earnhardt

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

David Grayson

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Robert Staughton Lynd

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Clarke

A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

George Eliot