Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

poems open doors

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

I’d do anything for her if she really wanted me to. I would even walk away from the chance of a lifetime if she asked me to... and I could even be happy about it.

People change and mature.

Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.