My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily appealed to me, but because of the people in them.

I can't imagine any one more delightful to sit and talk with about movies on a regular basis.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

What the feckin' hell is PMS, I'd like to ken?""Petty Male Shit, " she yelled.

I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if youre not playing by the rules, youre taking a big risk.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.