When everything has to be right something isn't.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

He who limps still walks.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

The only regret I have is that I couldn't teach you a lesson in humanity and humility. A mother should not depend on his son and that's the one mistake I committed.

POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am.

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

You're always trying to seize any opportunity or hold on to one if you already have it. It was just a matter of going out there and producing for the team.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

We might have been a free and great people together.