I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

Alice Englert

I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

Steven Wright

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

Edgar Allan Poe

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

William Shakespeare

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

Quincy Jones

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Lao Tzu

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ambrose Bierce

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Yogi Berra

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Woody Allen

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

Rene Russo

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

Susan Orlean