Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

And guess what? I have to admit.. I kinda start liking it here.

A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Having children has made me incredibly efficient. It's hard to leave them in the mornings, but I'm extremely productive during the day, knowing I want to be fully focused on them when I get home.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.