As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.

Marlene Dietrich for the way there was something so unique about her - the way she entered into a frame and everybody looks at her and the way she winks and looks up.

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I'm sure she would be exactly the same for me.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

I regret all the prayers that do not shed tears.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

I don’t need the factory behind me. I just need help getting my music heard.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.