To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.