Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I’ll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.