[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.

When people violate your values, they have excuses for doing so. For instance, they may misconceive your quest for responsiveness as being annoying...

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.