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

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.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

Every little movement has a meaning of its own.