All Quotes

"I think people will resonate with the idea of using love as a weapon of choice and fall in love with the story."

"Women are like teeth. Some tremble and never fall and some fall and never tremble."

"My mind sometimes wanders. Do unto others and so on. Very nice again, but what if others have a different taste from yours? I don't remember who said it."

"It was though I had been in possession of one of those small shells with Japanese flowers which are sold at street corners. When plunged into a bowl of water, the tightly sealed shell opens and the flat, dry, coiled-up, insignificant shreds of paper contained within float out and unfold their variegated and unsuspected splendour; with Gordon I had found my bowl of water."

"Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to the one he made me feel when forcing me to surrender to his virility. No one else before him had given me this gratification, but I realised now that the longing to be violated, body and soul, must have always been inside me."

"You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared."

"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth—or anywhere else."

"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingerprints."

"The most memorable thing I did in that film, I believe, was my screaming. In almost all my movies since, I've been called upon to scream. I don't know if it's by chance, but I would like to think that I'm not hired for that talent alone."

"I remember another solo trip, on the Berengaria, sailing from New York to Southampton. It was during Prohibition, and two acquaintances were aboard, fellows who were connected with a museum. I had brought a bottle of Scotch with me, and I used it to tempt them to talk. Like a sort of truth serum. Well, one of these fellows confided in me that he liked to wear a tiger-skin belt next to his skin — inside out, with the fur next to him. Facts like that make one feel blue-eyed and normal."

"She's better on stage, from a distance. On a screen, close up, she makes you want to dive for cover."

"Stardom is all hard work, aspirins and purgatives."

"Against the current eclipse of moral values and the resulting oppression of the human person in a world dominated by moral relativism, St. Thomas points to conscience as the norm of action, the path to man's redemption from the powers of the age and victory over technocracy, materialism, and idolatry of the State, which, by denying conscience, have suffocated or enslaved the human person. (p. 572)"

"[...] he [Thomas Aquinas] was neither traditionalist nor rationalist; he did not allow himself to be fascinated by intuitionist subjectivism, nor did he reduce intellectual life to cerebralism; he defended reason against those who, emphasizing its weakness, wanted to deduce the impossibility or danger of a relatively autonomous philosophy, but he was equally decisive and strong in affirming the transcendence of faith and the infinite height of revealed mysteries; he had a marked preference for Aristotle, precisely because of his fidelity to the most obvious data of reason and common sense, but he did not become an idolater to the point of confusing a divine religion with a philosophical system. (p. 575)"

"Those who know St. Thomas and are accustomed to savoring the substance of his truth, the clarity of his reasoning, the precision of his method, and even his “discreet Latin” (as Dante said), who are familiar with the magnificent intellectual architecture represented above all by the Summa [...], cannot help but consider with melancholy the fact that St. Thomas has been rejected by Italian thinkers and their consequent aberrations from the golden thread of the Hellenic-Latin philosophical tradition [...]. (p. 577)"

"No woman is now forced to compromise their femininity when they present what they do. I was one of the first to do it and I’m so proud of that. But it was a very scary time because you’re walking a space with a lot of resistance."

"I’m definitely where I am because of the path that other people have walked before me."

"The end of learning is the formation of character."

"There has been no shortage of great Italian thinkers. We remember above all Vico and, in his field, Galilei. But when we consider that, even more than these, Giordano Bruno, Nicolò Machiavelli, Ardigò and many others, even recent and living ones, whose most valid claim to fame is that they made history in the era of intellectual confusion, one wonders what we Italians have gained we Italians, in thought and in life, by stubbornly abandoning and banishing a thinker [Thomas Aquinas] who was authentically ours [...]; and what ignorance led us to deny a sublime genius who, together with Dante (who drew inspiration from him), gave us an unsurpassed primacy and an irrepressible influence in the world of thought. (p. 579)"

"[...] if healthy realism, spiritual harmony, and Thomist balance—which became a spiritual attitude and lifestyle through the deepening of thought—flourishing among Italians, had been the backbone of social and political life, perhaps we would have acted more wisely and experienced fewer disasters. (p. 579)"

"I knew in a flash Gary had something I should never have. It is something pure and he doesn't know it's there. In truth, that boy hasn't the least idea how well he acts."

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

"Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it. It's the perfect mummers' home. If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there."

"[I have a face that would] stop a sundial and frighten small children into fits."

"I have a face like the behind of an elephant."

"Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting."

"It's got so that every time I walk into a restaurant, I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh."

"All his tough talk is a blind, you know. He's a literate, gracious, kind man, with wonderful manners, and he speaks beautifully — when he wants to."

"All women are, in some degree, poets in imagination, angels in hearts, and diplomatists in mind."

"Let me not be sad because I am born a woman In this world; many saints suffer in this way."

"Can the river reject its fish? Can the mother spurn her child?"

"Pour faire un bon ennemi, prenez un ami: il sait où frapper."

"Les gens légers prennent légèrement les choses sérieuses et sérieusement les choses légères."

"Comment osons-nous juger les autres quand nous sentons si bien tout ce qui leur manque pour nous juger?"

"C'est un grand orgueil que d'oser être tout simplement soi."

"Il faut être très religieux pour changer de religion."

"C'est toujours une naïveté que de combattre une résolution qu'un homme a prise sérieusement. Il y a des chances pour que chacun voie plus clair que les autres dans sa propre affaire, parce qu'il y a pensé plus longtemps."

"La calomnie est comme la fausse monnaie: bien des gens qui ne voudraient pas l'avoir émise, la font circuler sans scrupule."

"Les gens les mieux élevés sont ceux qui ont le plus vite besoin de solitude, parce que ce sont ceux qui se gênent davantage pour la présence d'autrui."

"Ce sont les fortes raisons qui déterminent nos résolutions; ce sont les petites raisons qui nous arrêtent au moment de les exécuter. De loin tout le monde a envie de faire un beau voyage; et, à l'heure du départ, plus d'un est arrêté par la crainte de la cuisine ou des lits d'auberge."

"L'intelligence des femmes est inférieure à celle des hommes; toute femme qui tente de le nier travaille à le prouver."

"Les années qu'une femme retranche de son âge ne sont pas perdues: elles sont ajoutées à l'âge des autres femmes."

"La beauté attire, l'esprit amuse, le cœur retient."

"Qu'est-ce qu'une femme? Celle qui fait les heureux et qui console les malheureux."

"My career has never been, and will never be, defined by my relationship status. I was Minnie before marriage, and I will be Minnie long after my divorce."

"Speaking was always something that I had, I never thought in my wildest dreams that that’s what I would do as a career, I thought definitely I’d be an actress. So when the opportunity came for me to act, I ran with it."

"I’ve always been someone who understands that I whatever my circumstances are, I can get up and I can work and I can still make sure that I live the life that I want for myself, regardless of what’s been afforded to me or not."

"There’s a lot of women who walked that path before me. But I made a conscious decision to walk the path very feminine. I think I was one of the first girls to wear heels on a soccer pitch, and a dress, and full face-beat."

"The five worst infirmities that afflict the female are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy, and silliness."

"It clicked that I didn’t belong there when I would leave during lunch breaks for auditions, which would obviously go overboard, and I’d have to come back and explain myself."