Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.
Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.
I was always fighting with everyone when I was a kid. I was playing with people two or three years older than me, and I had to survive. So I love the physical game, the contact. And I don't know why, but I think football is like this. It is not just touching the ball and stringing together 50 pretty passes consecutively.
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.
I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
It's almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.
I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.
I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine.
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Rather be dead than cool.
Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
