We live in a world of banal miracles.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers.

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.""We always go out on Fridays.""It's Thursday, Alvis.""You are so tied to routine.

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last.

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.