Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Michael Caine

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

Kristin Scott Thomas

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Suzanne Finnamore

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

William Barclay

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

Dick Wolf

Never complain. Never explain.

Henry Ford

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where -- Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Lewis Carroll

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Peter Davison

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Jonathan Swift

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Albert Einstein

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Drinkwater