It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?

Love yourself first to love everyone else.

A dream is only as powerful as the dreamer.

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

Radar, of course, is what cellphone radiation is exactly like. It can be a similar frequency, it's just much weaker power.

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".