The only thing that really hurts the movies today is the amount of time people spend on phones, and skypeing and tweeting and texting.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
It's easy to make a buck - It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
I love the film industry. If I could drop dead on a film set at 80, that's how I'd want to go.
I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person.
~ Oscar winner, on her sudden rise to fame
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
