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.

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.

[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?

Your dreams will define your destiny.

The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.