Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.

If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.

Starting from this day, I will create a chance of happiness that doesn't depend on perfect conditions. My options may not be infinite, but my possibilities are endless." -Bliss Aston

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

Vision isn't a template in PowerPoint.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.