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

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.

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?

Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.

Guilt rarely listens to reason ...

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

Success is a wonderful addition to my life.

Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.