I just wanted what was outside to be different.

It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.

Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.