I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit

It’s all inside of you—what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time.” He pulls away and helps me to my feet. “Nobody makes you, you. You make yourself.

A government of laws, and not of men

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

Execution is the chariot of genius.