Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge, ' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

A guy can tell a girl he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to a woman when her head's full of doubt. You have to show her.

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.