Rebecca Quotes

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

No great thing happens suddenly.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

Just believe in your dreams.

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.

Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.

I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Hurting people is such a boyish thing to do.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.