I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.
I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.
I have friends who died being successful bohemians. Today, I see people my age who are gifted but who insisted on staying in this group, and it's beaten them so bad. They have to spend so much time on ego maintenance, they can't get any work done. They'd be very happy to sell out, but there are no buyers, and that hurts.
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.
I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.
You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.
For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.
You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second, third, and fourth homes. This is paper-deflation, zombie-deflation, and has nothing to do with the real economy.
Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.
I am someone who isn't always perfect.
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
I went to Australia from England when I was right at that age when you learn to read. It's a very confronting thing, traveling halfway around the world and having a mother who was deeply unhappy at ending up in Australia, so you look for some way to find comfort, I guess, and I found it in books.
Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.
