Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life.

I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.

We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there's none better. As a man of integrity, man of character, there's none better.