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A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.
Fred Allen

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
Fred Allen

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
Fred Allen

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
Fred Allen

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
Fred Allen

California is a great place to live if you're an orange.
Fred Allen

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
Fred Allen

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
Fred Allen

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
Fred Allen

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
Fred Allen

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
Fred Allen

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Fred Allen

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
Fred Allen

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
Fred Allen

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Fred Allen

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Fred Allen

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
Fred Allen

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred Allen

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Fred Allen

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
Fred Allen

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
Fred Allen

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
Fred Allen

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Fred Allen

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Fred Allen

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen

Television is a new medium, and I have discovered why it's called a new medium - because nothing is well done.
Fred Allen

Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
Fred Allen

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
Fred Allen

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
Fred Allen

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
Fred Allen

Was she old? When they lit all the candles on her birthday cake, six people were overcome with the heat.
Fred Allen

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
Fred Allen

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
Fred Allen

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen

A stockbroker is someone who takes all your money and invests it until it's gone.
Woody Allen

As the poet said, Only God can make a tree, probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody Allen

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Woody Allen

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody Allen

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
Woody Allen

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody Allen

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Woody Allen

I am two with nature.
Woody Allen

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Woody Allen

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
Woody Allen

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
Woody Allen

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
Woody Allen

I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.
Woody Allen

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
Woody Allen

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen

I'm astounded by people who want to know the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
Woody Allen

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Woody Allen

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Woody Allen

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Woody Allen

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen

It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody Allen

Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
Woody Allen

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
Woody Allen

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Woody Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen

Sex relieves tension - love causes it.
Woody Allen

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, Be fruitful and multiply, but not in those words.
Woody Allen

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Woody Allen

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
Woody Allen

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.
Woody Allen

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
Woody Allen

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
Woody Allen

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody Allen

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody Allen

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.
Julie Andrews

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
Julie Andrews

Actually, I had a lot of good people with me - my mother's sister did a lot of taking care of me, and I suppose I got more attention than my stepbrothers because at least I got to travel with my parents.
Julie Andrews

Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing I Have Confidence was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.
Julie Andrews

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.
Julie Andrews

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.
Julie Andrews

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.
Julie Andrews

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
Julie Andrews

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.
Julie Andrews

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.
Julie Andrews

Behaving like a princess is work. It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It’s more about how you are inside.
Julie Andrews

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
Julie Andrews

By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.
Julie Andrews

Did you ever notice the color of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot and red. I think she had a secret life going on there.
Julie Andrews

Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.
Julie Andrews

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
Julie Andrews

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.
Julie Andrews

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.
Julie Andrews

Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.
Julie Andrews

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.
Julie Andrews

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?
Julie Andrews

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
Julie Andrews

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
Julie Andrews

I am an optimistic lady.
Julie Andrews

I am thrilled to be dame. It's one of those - the fact that you have been honored by your country is what it's all about, and it just feels good right there.
Julie Andrews

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was home.
Julie Andrews

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
Julie Andrews

I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.
Julie Andrews

I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.
Julie Andrews

I did all of my learning on My Fair Lady.
Julie Andrews

I did My Fair Lady for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.
Julie Andrews

I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity.
Julie Andrews

I do get a lot of gifts. I get a lot of things to sign, too. People do collect the memorabilia. Between Poppins and The Sound of Music, there were beautiful plates that they made, and I've signed a lot of them.
Julie Andrews

I do not knock Poppins or The Sound of Music. They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure.
Julie Andrews

I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of My Fair Lady.
Julie Andrews

I don't know if I can live on my own, especially since my husband died. My children are trying to convince me to move to New York. They are trying to get me to be closer to them.
Julie Andrews

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.
Julie Andrews

I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.
Julie Andrews

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.
Julie Andrews

I had a lot of learning on my feet.
Julie Andrews

I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.
Julie Andrews

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, Oh, you'll get a much better education in life. I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.
Julie Andrews

I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
Julie Andrews

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.
Julie Andrews

I know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it.
Julie Andrews

I like - I actually love classical music very much.
Julie Andrews

I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place.
Julie Andrews

I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted.
Julie Andrews

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.
Julie Andrews

I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling.
Julie Andrews

I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time.
Julie Andrews

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.
Julie Andrews

I think any director is intimidating.
Julie Andrews

I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.
Julie Andrews

I think I'm just proudest to be the lady who was asked to play Mary Poppins. She's such a wonderful character, and there's so much tremendous talent out there. So I feel very lucky to be the one who got to play her.
Julie Andrews

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.
Julie Andrews

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
Julie Andrews

I turned down The Prime of Miss Jean Brody with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.
Julie Andrews

I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.
Julie Andrews

I was a very sad little girl.
Julie Andrews

I was always told I was not pretty enough.
Julie Andrews

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
Julie Andrews

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.
Julie Andrews

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
Julie Andrews

I was working from a very early age.
Julie Andrews

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Julie Andrews

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.
Julie Andrews

I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed.
Julie Andrews

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.
Julie Andrews

I'd say just go with the flow. And I take my hat off to any mother out there who works full-time and raises a family as well. It's hard work.
Julie Andrews

I'm beginning to think that I like the behind-the-scenes work as much as I do in front of the camera as I get a little bit older.
Julie Andrews

I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.
Julie Andrews

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.
Julie Andrews

I'm not very good with rap and things like that.
Julie Andrews

I'm not very good with some of the more modern songs that have an awful lot of doo wah wahs, if you know what I mean, because I can't do anything with them.
Julie Andrews

I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces.
Julie Andrews

I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.
Julie Andrews

I've always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too far away from huge rhododendron estates and azalea estates, and when they're in bloom in England, they're just riotous.
Julie Andrews

I've got a good right hook.
Julie Andrews

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.
Julie Andrews

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.
Julie Andrews

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
Julie Andrews

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.
Julie Andrews

If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing.
Julie Andrews

If you’re passionate about what you do, then go for it wholeheartedly.
Julie Andrews

If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family, that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else.
Julie Andrews

In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first.
Julie Andrews

In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most, was the most memorable, the most wonderful, the most miraculous. I think a lot of women would probably feel that way, too.
Julie Andrews

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.
Julie Andrews

Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an Old Man River, way down in the bass.
Julie Andrews

Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.
Julie Andrews

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.
Julie Andrews

Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say.
Julie Andrews

My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family.
Julie Andrews

My mum gave me pretty good genes in that department. She had gorgeous skin. That good English complexion. She never seemed to have a blemish that I knew of.
Julie Andrews

My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.
Julie Andrews

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
Julie Andrews

My voice needed oiling, and then it took off.
Julie Andrews

One of our books has been made into a musical, The Great American Mousical, which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, Simeon's Gift, has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Julie Andrews

Our first visit to the Creature Shop is one of the days I will never, ever forget. There was just so much to see and admire and be gobsmacked by.
Julie Andrews

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.
Julie Andrews

Simeon's Gift is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.
Julie Andrews

Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow.
Julie Andrews

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.
Julie Andrews

Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.
Julie Andrews

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Julie Andrews

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Julie Andrews

The amateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.
Julie Andrews

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.
Julie Andrews

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.
Julie Andrews

The arts need funding.
Julie Andrews

The love we have for our children is like nothing else in the world.
Julie Andrews

The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys.
Julie Andrews

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.
Julie Andrews

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.
Julie Andrews

There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.
Julie Andrews

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
Julie Andrews

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.
Julie Andrews

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.
Julie Andrews

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.
Julie Andrews

When I did The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins and The Americanization of Emily, all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.
Julie Andrews

When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.
Julie Andrews

When in doubt, stand still.
Julie Andrews

When one door closes, another window opens.
Julie Andrews

When you are traveling in vaudeville, you experience so many different kinds of audiences, depending on what time of the week it is, how long the pubs have been open, and things like that.
Julie Andrews

Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
Julie Andrews

Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?
Julie Andrews

You can't bring the arts too soon to kids.
Julie Andrews

You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.
Julie Andrews

You never start out being a star.
Julie Andrews

You take any job that comes along, and if you're really lucky, the movie takes off.
Julie Andrews

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.
Julie Andrews

You're always changing your thoughts about things.
Julie Andrews

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
Lauren Bacall

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
Lauren Bacall

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
Lauren Bacall

Acting is a life of rejection.
Lauren Bacall

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.
Lauren Bacall

All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.
Lauren Bacall

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
From a 1966 interview with Vogue.
Lauren Bacall

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
Lauren Bacall

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
Lauren Bacall

For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.
Lauren Bacall

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.
Lauren Bacall

I adored Breaking The Waves, so when Lars von Trier wanted me in Dogville, I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.
Lauren Bacall

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.
Lauren Bacall

I am essentially a loner.
Lauren Bacall

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
From a 1979 interview with People magazine.
Lauren Bacall

I called my business manager in California and said, Sell all of my stock - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.
Lauren Bacall

I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.
Lauren Bacall

I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.
Lauren Bacall

I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.
Lauren Bacall

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
Lauren Bacall

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it content.
Lauren Bacall

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.
Lauren Bacall

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.
Lauren Bacall

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.
Lauren Bacall

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
Lauren Bacall

I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.
Lauren Bacall

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
Lauren Bacall

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
Lauren Bacall

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on. And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
Lauren Bacall

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
Lauren Bacall

I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.
Lauren Bacall

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
By Myself and Then Some (2005)
Lauren Bacall

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.
Lauren Bacall

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
Lauren Bacall

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
Lauren Bacall

I was never my favourite subject.
Lauren Bacall

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
Lauren Bacall

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.
Lauren Bacall

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
Lauren Bacall

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.
Lauren Bacall

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
Lauren Bacall

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
Lauren Bacall

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
Lauren Bacall

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.
Lauren Bacall

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.
Lauren Bacall

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Cited in a 2011 interview with The Telegraph.
Lauren Bacall

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.
Lauren Bacall

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
Lauren Bacall

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
Lauren Bacall

It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.
Lauren Bacall

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
Lauren Bacall

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. Life is about looking out, not looking in.
From a Vanity Fair interview.
Lauren Bacall

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.
Lauren Bacall

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.
Lauren Bacall

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.
Lauren Bacall

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
Lauren Bacall

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.
Lauren Bacall

Patience was not my strong point.
Lauren Bacall

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
Cited in a 2011 interview with The Telegraph.
Lauren Bacall

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
Lauren Bacall

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
Lauren Bacall

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.
Lauren Bacall

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?
Lauren Bacall

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.
Lauren Bacall

The world is not always a kind place. That's something all of us learn sooner or later, whether we want to or not.
By Myself and Then Some (2005)
Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
Lauren Bacall

They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.
Lauren Bacall

We live in an age of mediocrity.
Lauren Bacall

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?
Lauren Bacall

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
Lauren Bacall

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
Lauren Bacall

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
Lauren Bacall

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.
Lauren Bacall

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
Lauren Bacall

You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.
Lauren Bacall

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.
Lauren Bacall

You can't always be a leading lady.
Lauren Bacall

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Lauren Bacall

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
By Myself (1978)
Lauren Bacall

You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Lauren Bacall

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
Lauren Bacall

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.
Lauren Bacall

Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart? Well, yes, I think I was, I reply.
Lauren Bacall

Acting is a form of confusion.
Tallulah Bankhead

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Tallulah Bankhead

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.
Famously quoted, reflecting her candidness about her lifestyle.
Tallulah Bankhead

Codeine...bourbon.
Tallulah Bankhead

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
Tallulah Bankhead

First person to fall asleep is a shit!
Party at her place.
Tallulah Bankhead

Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead

Here's to alcohol, the rose-colored glasses of life.
Reflects her notorious love for drinking.
Tallulah Bankhead

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tallulah Bankhead

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead

I thought I told you to wait in the car.
On seeing a former lover for the first time in years.
Tallulah Bankhead

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead

I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead

I'm a nymphomaniac. I'm a compulsive eater. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm a homosexual. I'm a genius.
Authenticity questionable.
Tallulah Bankhead

I'm as pure as the driven slush.
One of her most iconic lines, referencing her public persona.
Tallulah Bankhead

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah (1952)
Tallulah Bankhead

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
Reflects her bold humor and openness about sexuality.
Tallulah Bankhead

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead

If you really want to help somebody, you help them to help themselves.
Authenticity questionable.
Tallulah Bankhead

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work—the night watchman.
Highlights her wit about the unpredictability of acting.
Tallulah Bankhead

It's the good girls who keep the diaries. The bad girls never have the time.
A quip on her rebellious persona.
Tallulah Bankhead

My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
Authenticity questionable.
Tallulah Bankhead

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Tallulah Bankhead

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
Tallulah Bankhead

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead

There is less in this than meets the eye.
Reportedly said about a play she starred in.
Tallulah Bankhead

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
Tallulah Bankhead

A film about my life? But I am not dead.
Brigitte Bardot

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.
Brigitte Bardot

Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
Brigitte Bardot

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Often misattributed to George Bernard Shaw, but Bardot has expressed similar sentiments in her animal rights advocacy.
Brigitte Bardot

Animals are not ours to use, abuse, or exploit. They have their own purpose and place on this earth.
Brigitte Bardot

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
Brigitte Bardot

As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me.
Brigitte Bardot

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
Brigitte Bardot

Death was like love, a romantic escape.
Brigitte Bardot

Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Brigitte Bardot

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
Brigitte Bardot

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
Brigitte Bardot

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.
Brigitte Bardot

French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
Brigitte Bardot

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.
Brigitte Bardot

Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.
Brigitte Bardot

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
Brigitte Bardot

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
Brigitte Bardot

I adore my houses - they're my refuge - but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it's impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me.
Brigitte Bardot

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.
Brigitte Bardot

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.
Brigitte Bardot

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren’t political.
Brigitte Bardot

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte Bardot

I am against the Islamisation of France.
Brigitte Bardot

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
Brigitte Bardot

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.
Brigitte Bardot

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.
Brigitte Bardot

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Brigitte Bardot

I am no mother, and I won't be one.
Brigitte Bardot

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.
Brigitte Bardot

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
Brigitte Bardot

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.
Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
Brigitte Bardot

I am typically French.
Brigitte Bardot

I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.
Brigitte Bardot

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.
Brigitte Bardot

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
Brigitte Bardot

I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.
Brigitte Bardot

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.
Brigitte Bardot

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.
Brigitte Bardot

I don't think I was a good comedian.
Brigitte Bardot

I don't think when I make love.
Brigitte Bardot

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Reflects her transition from acting to animal rights activism.
Brigitte Bardot

I have a gruff character.
Brigitte Bardot

I have a slight despising for humanity in general.
Brigitte Bardot

I have been a slave to my freedom.
Commenting on the paradox of fame and personal liberty.
Brigitte Bardot

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
Brigitte Bardot

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.
Brigitte Bardot

I have the courage of my convictions.
Brigitte Bardot

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
Brigitte Bardot

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
Brigitte Bardot

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.
Brigitte Bardot

I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.
Brigitte Bardot

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
Brigitte Bardot

I know what sin is.
Brigitte Bardot

I leave before being left. I decide.
Brigitte Bardot

I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being.
Brigitte Bardot

I left the cinema as I entered it: without regrets.
On retiring from acting in 1973.
Brigitte Bardot

I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.
Brigitte Bardot

I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.
Brigitte Bardot

I never do anything by chance.
Brigitte Bardot

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.
Brigitte Bardot

I never had trouble saying what I have to say.
Brigitte Bardot

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.
Brigitte Bardot

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
Brigitte Bardot

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.
Brigitte Bardot

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
Brigitte Bardot

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.
Brigitte Bardot

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
Brigitte Bardot

I regret nothing.
Brigitte Bardot

I say what I think and I think what I say.
Brigitte Bardot

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
Brigitte Bardot

I stopped making films to look after animals.
Brigitte Bardot

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.
Brigitte Bardot

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.
Brigitte Bardot

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.
Brigitte Bardot

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
Brigitte Bardot

I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be.
Brigitte Bardot

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.
Brigitte Bardot

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
Brigitte Bardot

I'm not an extremist, you know.
Brigitte Bardot

I'm not difficult. I just want things to be perfect.
Attributed to her during her film career, emphasizing her professionalism.
Brigitte Bardot

I'm not made to be a mother.
Brigitte Bardot

I'm too impatient.
Brigitte Bardot

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
Brigitte Bardot

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.
Brigitte Bardot

If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
Brigitte Bardot

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
Brigitte Bardot

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
Brigitte Bardot

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Brigitte Bardot

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
Brigitte Bardot

It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
On aging and personal growth.
Brigitte Bardot

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
Brigitte Bardot

James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.
Brigitte Bardot

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
Brigitte Bardot

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
Brigitte Bardot

My favourite animals are dogs.
Brigitte Bardot

My life as a star was a prelude to my true destiny: the defense of animals.
Summarizing her shift from Hollywood to activism.
Brigitte Bardot

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
Brigitte Bardot

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.
Brigitte Bardot

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
Brigitte Bardot

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.
Brigitte Bardot

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
Brigitte Bardot

Nobody has any security in loving me.
Brigitte Bardot

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.
Brigitte Bardot

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Brigitte Bardot

People are forever finding something wrong with you.
Brigitte Bardot

People have already dirtied my name too much.
Brigitte Bardot

Percentages are why I am rich.
Brigitte Bardot

Politics disgusts me.
Brigitte Bardot

Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.
Brigitte Bardot

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
Brigitte Bardot

The more I know about humans, the more I love my dogs.
A common sentiment in her animal rights work.
Brigitte Bardot

The more I see of humans, the more I love animals.
Brigitte Bardot

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.
Brigitte Bardot

The world today doesn't please me.
Brigitte Bardot

There is a certain dignity to being French.
Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Brigitte Bardot

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
Brigitte Bardot

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
Brigitte Bardot

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
Brigitte Bardot

We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.
Brigitte Bardot

We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.
Brigitte Bardot

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot

What does it mean, being a woman?
Brigitte Bardot

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.
Brigitte Bardot

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot

Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!
Brigitte Bardot

You can be barefoot and have worries.
Brigitte Bardot

A human soul, that God has created and Christ died for, is not to be trifled with. It may tenant the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab or a Hottentot - it is still an immortal spirit.
P. T. Barnum

How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
P. T. Barnum

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
Roseanne Barr

A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the Roseanne show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.
Roseanne Barr

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land—it largely increases the product.
Roseanne Barr

After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.
Roseanne Barr

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
Roseanne Barr

Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.
Roseanne Barr

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
Roseanne Barr

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.
Roseanne Barr

Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5.
Roseanne Barr

Birth control that really works—every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
Roseanne Barr

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.
Roseanne Barr

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.
Roseanne Barr

Comedy is the ultimate truth. The reason people laugh is because they’re connecting to the truth. If it wasn’t the truth, they’d go, Huh?
Chicago Tribune (1990).
Roseanne Barr

Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm (2012).
Roseanne Barr

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.
Roseanne Barr

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.
Roseanne Barr

Excuse the mess, but we live here.
Roseanne Barr

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Roseanne Barr

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!
Roseanne Barr

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Roseanne Barr

Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.
Roseanne Barr

Housewives are all the same, they all want to be femme fatales. Then they get married and turn into detectives.
A recurring theme in her stand-up comedy routines during the 1980s.
Roseanne Barr

Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That's why I write a blog. And I read it, too.
Roseanne Barr

I actually get more conservative when I'm in Vegas.
Roseanne Barr

I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it gives me to think that today will be different from yesterday, that I will find an interesting comment or poke or video, and on the extremely rare occasion when that happens, I am just thrilled.
Roseanne Barr

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like Seinfeld, Friends, you know, Three and a Half Men.
Roseanne Barr

I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.
Roseanne Barr

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
Roseanne Barr

I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.
Roseanne Barr

I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.
Roseanne Barr

I can't have cats around me because they try to steal my energy.
Roseanne Barr

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.
Roseanne Barr

I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost.
Roseanne Barr

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.
Roseanne Barr

I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.
Roseanne Barr

I had - after I sang the Star Spangled Banner so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.
Roseanne Barr

I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.
Roseanne Barr

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.
Roseanne Barr

I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.
Roseanne Barr

I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.
Roseanne Barr

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.
Roseanne Barr

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.
Roseanne Barr

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.
Roseanne Barr

I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word housewife. I prefer to be called domestic goddess.
Roseanne Barr

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?
Roseanne Barr

I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys - I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.
Roseanne Barr

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.
Roseanne Barr

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.
Roseanne Barr

I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, This is what I think; there's the truth. I try to think of stuff that's real broad, but the more personal it is, the more universal it is. All my friends go through the same stuff.
Roseanne Barr

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.
Roseanne Barr

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.
Roseanne Barr

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.
Roseanne Barr

I was completely nuts for most of my life.
Roseanne Barr

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.
Roseanne Barr

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.
Roseanne Barr

I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.
Roseanne Barr

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the Roseanne show.
Roseanne Barr

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.
Roseanne Barr

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.
Roseanne Barr

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.
Roseanne Barr

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.
Roseanne Barr

I'm God because I have the power to control my mind.
Roseanne Barr

I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish.
Roseanne Barr

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.
Roseanne Barr

I'm not a domestic goddess unless you consider takeout a form of worship.
Roseanne: My Life as a Woman (1989).
Roseanne Barr

I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.
Roseanne Barr

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
Roseanne Barr

I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world.
Roseanne Barr

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.
Roseanne Barr

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.
Roseanne Barr

In America, the majority rules, but the minority are such poor losers they have to take to the streets.
Tweet from July 2017, commenting on political protests.
Roseanne Barr

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.
Roseanne Barr

It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.
Roseanne Barr

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.
Roseanne Barr

Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.
Roseanne Barr

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the pal back in Palestinian.
Roseanne Barr

Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.
Roseanne Barr

Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.
Controversial tweet from May 29, 2018, referencing Valerie Jarrett, which led to the cancellation of her show Roseanne.
Roseanne Barr

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
Roseanne Barr

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
Roseanne Barr

My real life is funnier than anything on TV.
Roseanne Barr

Nobody wanted the Roseanne show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.
Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.
Roseanne Barr

One of the first things I bought when I made Roseanne Show money was a farm in Iowa.
Roseanne Barr

Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.
Roseanne Barr

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.
Roseanne Barr

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
Roseanne Barr

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.
Roseanne Barr

Take this marriage thing seriously—it has to last all the way to the divorce.
Roseanne Barr

The American people are sick and tired of this lesser evil garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.
Roseanne Barr

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
Roseanne Barr

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
Roseanne Barr

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!
Roseanne Barr

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.
Roseanne Barr

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness.
Roseanne Barr

The noblest art is that of making others happy.
Roseanne Barr

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Roseanne Barr

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.
Roseanne Barr

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
People Magazine (1990).
Roseanne Barr

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.
Roseanne Barr

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne Barr

They've said Roseanne's nuts for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!
Roseanne Barr

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.
Roseanne Barr

TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.
Roseanne Barr

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.
Roseanne Barr

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
Roseanne Barr

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.
Roseanne Barr

Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, Hey, why not you Roseanne? Indeed, why not each of us?
Roseanne Barr

Winning in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.
Roseanne Barr

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
Roseanne Barr

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.
Roseanne Barr

Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.
Roseanne Barr

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.
Roseanne Barr

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.
Roseanne Barr

You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.
Roseanne Barr

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.
Roseanne Barr

You know, I'm blessed. Blessed is a better way of saying rich.
Roseanne Barr

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.
Roseanne Barr

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ethel Barrymore

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
Ethel Barrymore

I always want to be the first violinist, not the second.
Ethel Barrymore

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
Ethel Barrymore

Insecurity is the mother of fear. The more secure you feel in yourself, the braver you will be.
Ethel Barrymore

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
Ethel Barrymore

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Ethel Barrymore

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Ethel Barrymore

That's all there is, there isn't any more.
The Corn Is Green
Ethel Barrymore

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Ethel Barrymore

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Ethel Barrymore

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Ethel Barrymore

The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Ethel Barrymore

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?
Ethel Barrymore

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Often cited as a reflection on aging and ambition.
John Barrymore

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John Barrymore

An actor is only as good as the roles he chooses to play.
John Barrymore

Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of us proceed with the libretto.
John Barrymore

Death is a low-budget production, and I’m the star.
A darkly humorous remark about mortality, possibly from his later years.
John Barrymore

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.
John Barrymore

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
A poetic observation on unexpected joy.
John Barrymore

I am a drinker with a writing problem.
John Barrymore

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore

I have spent most of my life searching out the boundaries of my limitations—and trying to exceed them.
Reflects his relentless pursuit of artistic growth.
John Barrymore

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning.
John Barrymore

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
John Barrymore

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
John Barrymore

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
A sardonic take on fleeting romance.
John Barrymore

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
John Barrymore

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.
John Barrymore

My only regret in life is that I did not drink enough Champagne.
John Barrymore

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
John Barrymore

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
John Barrymore

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
John Barrymore

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
John Barrymore

The good die young, because they see it’s no use living if you have to be good.
A playful jab at morality and conformity.
John Barrymore

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life unlived.
John Barrymore

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore

The world is a stage, and we are all merely players.
John Barrymore

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I want that on my tombstone.
John Barrymore

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
John Barrymore

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
John Barrymore

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
John Barrymore

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
John Barrymore

You never hear of a ghost wanting to live alone; spooking is a group activity.
A whimsical quip about camaraderie, even in the supernatural.
John Barrymore

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
John Barrymore

A recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
James Beard

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
James Beard

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.
James Beard

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
James Beard

Grilling, broiling, barbecuing—whatever you want to call it—is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.
James Beard

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.
James Beard

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
James Beard

I don't like gourmet cooking or this cooking or that cooking. I like good cooking.
James Beard

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
James Beard

The kitchen is a sacred space—the heart of the home, where nourishment and creativity meet.
James Beard

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
James Beard

The only thing that will make a soufflé fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.
James Beard

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.
James Beard

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you're convinced that cooking is drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.
James Beard

There is no such thing as a new recipe. All recipes are built on other recipes.
James Beard

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.
James Beard

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it.
James Beard

Wine is a part of civilized life, a part of the hospitality of the home, and a part of the joy of eating.
James Beard

After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?
Victoria Beckham

Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
Victoria Beckham

Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham

Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
Victoria Beckham

Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
Victoria Beckham

Don't play football in the house.
Victoria Beckham

Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.
Victoria Beckham

Even if you're not being chased by paparazzi, there will be someone doing selfies, so everybody has to be camera-ready all the time. Whoever you are, everybody has to be ready now!
Victoria Beckham

Everything that I design I would wear myself.
Victoria Beckham

Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?
Victoria Beckham

Fashion stole my smile! I've created this person.
Victoria Beckham

Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
Victoria Beckham

First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
Victoria Beckham

For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
Victoria Beckham

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
Victoria Beckham

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
Victoria Beckham

I am a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
Victoria Beckham

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
Victoria Beckham

I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.
Victoria Beckham

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
Victoria Beckham

I believe in creative visualization.
Victoria Beckham

I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
Victoria Beckham

I can't concentrate in flats.
Reflecting her preference for high heels, often cited in fashion interviews.
Victoria Beckham

I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.
Victoria Beckham

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
Victoria Beckham

I don't have any issues with my age.
Victoria Beckham

I don't have time to be tired.
From a Red Magazine interview on balancing her career and family.
Victoria Beckham

I don't have to work; I need to work.
Victoria Beckham

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
Victoria Beckham

I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
Victoria Beckham

I don't like to over-accessorize. I like to keep it simple.
A fashion philosophy shared in various style features.
Victoria Beckham

I don't want to look like everyone else.
On her unique style, as mentioned in Elle Magazine.
Victoria Beckham

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
Victoria Beckham

I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
Victoria Beckham

I have always been a great believer that women should support women, and my admiration goes out to mothers everywhere, as they constantly put their own needs behind those of their children, embracing daily uncertainties and entering the new uncharted territories that each day brings, to be, in return, rewarded with joy and unending love.
Victoria Beckham

I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
Victoria Beckham

I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.
Victoria Beckham

I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
Victoria Beckham

I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
Victoria Beckham

I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
Victoria Beckham

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
Victoria Beckham

I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.
Victoria Beckham

I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.
Victoria Beckham

I like to think of my customer and make sure that season after season she is getting what she wants. Ultimately, I suppose I have an image of myself. That is the person I am designing for - a woman who loves and appreciates fashion and luxury, and somebody who wants to feel empowered with the best version of themselves.
Victoria Beckham

I looooove Miss Piggy.
Victoria Beckham

I love America. It's such a positive country.
Victoria Beckham

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
Victoria Beckham

I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.
Victoria Beckham

I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
Victoria Beckham

I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
Victoria Beckham

I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
Victoria Beckham

I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
Victoria Beckham

I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
Victoria Beckham

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
Victoria Beckham

I see a dermatologist in L.A. called Dr. Harold Lancer, who is incredible. I've known him for years - he sorted my skin out.
Victoria Beckham

I swear they're real!
Victoria Beckham

I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
Victoria Beckham

I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
Victoria Beckham

I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
Victoria Beckham

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
Victoria Beckham

I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
Victoria Beckham

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Victoria Beckham

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
Victoria Beckham

I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
Victoria Beckham

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
Victoria Beckham

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
Victoria Beckham

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham

I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.
Victoria Beckham

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham

I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
Victoria Beckham

I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.
Victoria Beckham

I'm a working mother, just trying to juggle everything like everyone else.
From a parenting magazine interview about motherhood.
Victoria Beckham

I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.
Victoria Beckham

I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
Victoria Beckham

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
Victoria Beckham

I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.
Victoria Beckham

I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.
Victoria Beckham

I'm more of a picker than an eater.
Discussing her diet habits in Vogue.
Victoria Beckham

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
Victoria Beckham

I'm not a designer. I'm a stylist.
Commenting on her fashion journey in a Telegraph interview.
Victoria Beckham

I'm not a pop star. I'm not a model. I'm not a conventional celebrity. But I think that's why people relate to me.
From a Glamour interview on her public persona.
Victoria Beckham

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
Victoria Beckham

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Victoria Beckham

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
Victoria Beckham

I'm not the most talented Spice Girl, but I definitely work the hardest.
A self-reflective quote from her autobiography.
Victoria Beckham

I'm still me even after all that's happened.
Victoria Beckham

I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
Victoria Beckham

I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
Victoria Beckham

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
Victoria Beckham

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
Victoria Beckham

I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
Victoria Beckham

I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
Victoria Beckham

I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.
Victoria Beckham

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
Victoria Beckham

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
Victoria Beckham

I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
Victoria Beckham

I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
Victoria Beckham

I've only ever tried to be me.
Victoria Beckham

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham

If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
Victoria Beckham

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
Victoria Beckham

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
Victoria Beckham

It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
Victoria Beckham

It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
Victoria Beckham

It's not healthy to be jealous.
Victoria Beckham

Less is more.
Victoria Beckham

My aim is to create the perfect dress!
Victoria Beckham

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
Victoria Beckham

My children are my priority and always have been.
Victoria Beckham

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
Victoria Beckham

My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham

My glasses say a lot about me because I think me in a pair of sunglasses is an image that a lot of people would recognise.
Victoria Beckham

My style is quite minimal. I don't like too much fuss.
Highlighted in Harper's Bazaar as part of her design ethos.
Victoria Beckham

Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
Victoria Beckham

People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
Victoria Beckham

People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
Victoria Beckham

People have always had an opinion about me and David. They didn't think we'd last.
On her marriage to David Beckham, from a BBC interview.
Victoria Beckham

People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing.
Victoria Beckham

Sexy is about the way you wear something and being confident - the clothes are sexy and flattering. I've said right from the beginning, it's very important clothes are flattering. I want a woman to look and feel like the best version of herself.
Victoria Beckham

Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.
Victoria Beckham

Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
Victoria Beckham

Strong women, that's who I really respect.
Victoria Beckham

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.
Victoria Beckham

The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.
Victoria Beckham

The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.
Victoria Beckham

The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
Victoria Beckham

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
Victoria Beckham

The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
Victoria Beckham

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
Victoria Beckham

There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.
Victoria Beckham

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
Victoria Beckham

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
Victoria Beckham

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
Victoria Beckham

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
Victoria Beckham

We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
Victoria Beckham

We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
Victoria Beckham

We're very, very working class. ... OK, in the Eighties, my dad had a Rolls-Royce.
Victoria Beckham

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
Victoria Beckham

When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.
Victoria Beckham

When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
Victoria Beckham

When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
Victoria Beckham

When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.
Victoria Beckham

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.
Victoria Beckham

You have to dress for your body shape. You have to know what suits you.
Fashion advice shared in a Harper's Bazaar feature.
Victoria Beckham

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
Victoria Beckham

You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
Victoria Beckham

You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
Victoria Beckham

39 and holding.
Jack Benny

39? Well, I'm not a kid anymore.
Often said resignedly when reminded.
Jack Benny

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny

Come on, Maxwell!
Urging the car to start.
Jack Benny

Cut That Out! Now Cut That Out!
Directed primarily at bandleader Phil Harris or others mocking him, often while trying to maintain composure.
Jack Benny

Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
Jack Benny

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
Jack Benny

I once tried to have a dramatic radio show, but the line fell flat after I said, Don't shoot! and a woman in the audience shouted, Why not?
Jack Benny

I was 39 years old when that happened... and I've been 39 ever since!
Jack Benny

I'm 39 years old.
His most famous running gag, claiming this age for decades.
Jack Benny

I'm thinking of giving up show business for acting.
Jack Benny

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny

Is this the car, boss? It looks like a kiddie car.
Rochester, but Benny's ownership defined the joke.
Jack Benny

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny

Jell-O Again?
A frequent, slightly exasperated comment to Mary Livingstone or Rochester about the ubiquitous dessert served at home, highlighting his desire for luxury contrasting with perceived frugality.
Jack Benny

Kiddie Car.
Variation on Maxwell: Sometimes used interchangeably or descriptively for his notoriously unreliable car.
Jack Benny

Ladies and gentlemen, will now play...
Mel Blanc as the announcer, often collapsing before finishing the piece title due to boredom/exhaustion.
Jack Benny

Maxwell.
The Car.
Jack Benny

Modesty is my best quality.
Jack Benny

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny

Play.
Talking to his violin.
Jack Benny

Rochester...
The way Benny called for his valet/chauffeur, Eddie Rochester Anderson, often with a tone of familiarity, exasperation, or need.
Jack Benny

There will be a ten-dollar charge for whining.
Jack Benny

There’s only one thing I can say about the guy: he's one of the nicest people I’ve ever stabbed in the back.
Jack Benny

Well...
His signature, drawn-out, highly indignant, and often speechless reaction to an insult, a slight on his age, his cheapness, his violin playing, or his Maxwell. This single word, delivered with perfect timing and inflection, is perhaps his most identifiable vocal trademark.
Jack Benny

Your money or your life!
Famously followed by a long pause and then his punchline.
I'm thinking it over!
His iconic, prolonged, exasperated response to the robber's demand. The ultimate expression of his cheapness.
Jack Benny

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Reflecting her romantic and practical nature.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Ingrid Bergman

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Advice she often gave, emphasizing authenticity.
Ingrid Bergman

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
One of her most famous and oft-repeated witticisms.
Ingrid Bergman

Here's looking at you, kid.
While spoken by her in Casablanca, this is scripted dialogue written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch. She did not originate it, but it's inseparable from her performance. Often misattributed to her personally.
Ingrid Bergman

How awful it is to love something Death can touch.
Expressing deep emotion, often cited regarding love or loss.
Ingrid Bergman

I am an actress as long as I live; I will never stop acting.
Emphasizing her lifelong dedication to her craft.
Ingrid Bergman

I came from another country where I already was somebody. I didn't have to go through the stage of being a nobody.
On arriving in Hollywood with established European success.
Ingrid Bergman

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman

I don't regret a thing I've done. I only regret the things I didn't do.
Ingrid Bergman

I don't regret anything I've ever done. As long as I enjoyed it at the time.
Reflecting her philosophy of living without regret, famously stated during the Rossellini scandal period.
Ingrid Bergman

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
Ingrid Bergman

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
Ingrid Bergman

I have had my share of adventures, and I hope I will have some more.
Ingrid Bergman

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
A defining statement about her personal choices and independence.
Ingrid Bergman

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Ingrid Bergman

I never thought I was particularly beautiful. What is a beautiful face? An empty present.
Downplaying conventional beauty standards.
Ingrid Bergman

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid Bergman

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.
Describing the paradox of her immense talent overcoming personal shyness.
Ingrid Bergman

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
Underlining the fundamental importance of acting to her existence.
Ingrid Bergman

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
On the technique and perception of acting.
Ingrid Bergman

It's terrible to become an institution.
Expressing a fear of being pigeonholed or losing vitality.
Ingrid Bergman

Keep it simple. Less is more.
Advice on acting and likely life.
Ingrid Bergman

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
A powerful statement about taking control and shaping her own destiny.
Ingrid Bergman

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid Bergman

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
On the unique power of cinema.
Ingrid Bergman

People saw me in Joan of Arc and declared me a saint. I'm not. I'm just a working woman.
Reacting to the public's saintly image of her after the role.
Ingrid Bergman

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
A philosophical take on contentment.
Ingrid Bergman

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
On the value of quiet companionship.
Ingrid Bergman

The only thing I regret is that I will not be able to see the world anymore. That's the only regret. Everything else, I did what I wanted.
Stated near the end of her life, summing up her adventurous spirit and lack of regret.
Ingrid Bergman

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
Ingrid Bergman

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
A witty observation on the effort required for authenticity.
Ingrid Bergman

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman

We walked into the garden; it was dark and very cold. We sat down on a stone bench. He took my hand and held it. And that was the moment I fell in love with him. It had nothing to do with sex. It was a feeling of absolute peace and contentment. When I was with him, I was home.
Describing the moment she fell in love with Roberto Rossellini, from her autobiography.
Ingrid Bergman

You cannot imagine what it is like to be told every day of your life that you are beautiful. It drives you crazy.
On the burden of constant external focus on her appearance.
Ingrid Bergman

You must train your intuition—you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
Advice on trusting one's inner self.
Ingrid Bergman

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
Humphrey Bogart

All right, we'll wait. We'll drink to our partnership.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

All you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart

And I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
The Big Sleep (1946)
Humphrey Bogart

Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Humphrey Bogart

Booze is the easiest way out.
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Humphrey Bogart

But I don't know what I'm going to do with the stuff. I don't even know what I'm going to do with the rest of my life.
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Humphrey Bogart

Can I get you a drink?
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

Crazier they are, the better they sell.
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Humphrey Bogart

Cut it out, O'Mara. You've been making noises like a policeman since I came in here.
The Enforcer (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

Did you have to wear that dress?
The Big Sleep (1946)
Humphrey Bogart

Don't, uh, don't you ever get tired of standing on that bar?
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Humphrey Bogart

Don't bother me, baby.
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Humphrey Bogart

Every day is just like the one before, and the one after.
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Humphrey Bogart

Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

Goodness had nothing to do with it.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Here's looking at you, kid.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

How do I know your friends aren't out there right now, ready to blast me when I walk out?
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
Humphrey Bogart

I don't like you. But I love you.
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
Humphrey Bogart

I don't see where you fit in.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

I gave up drinking once – it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.
Humphrey Bogart

I guess we're all entitled to one good scare.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Humphrey Bogart

I hate love.
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

I hope you're not doing this just for my sake.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

I let my drinking do the talking.
Humphrey Bogart

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
Humphrey Bogart

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Humphrey Bogart

I stick my neck out for nobody.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Humphrey Bogart

I'm a businessman. I'm on my way to... to close a deal.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Humphrey Bogart

I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.
Humphrey Bogart

I've been around, you know.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

If she can stand it, I can. Play it!
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

It's the stuff that dreams are made of.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Killer, eh? I never killed anybody that I can remember.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Humphrey Bogart

Maybe not, but I think I will. I think I'll have a drink.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

Oh, I don't know. I was just a lucky guy.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

One more thing, I love you.
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
Humphrey Bogart

Physically, I'm not tough. I may think tough. I would say I'm kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.
Humphrey Bogart

Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

Put your dreams away for another day.
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Humphrey Bogart

She's trying to find out if we're susceptible to... animal magnetism.
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

So long, ah, you long-faced, barrel-chested, hypocritical...
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

Someday you're gonna get into trouble, and I'm gonna have to get you out.
The Big Sleep (1946)
Humphrey Bogart

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains.
The Big Sleep (1946)
Humphrey Bogart

Swell. I like that. You begin to pick up the lingo.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

That's the one you're supposed to say Isn't that just like a woman? and I say Yes, isn't it?
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

The only one that's any good is the one you don't get.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
Humphrey Bogart

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

The whole world is three drinks behind.
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Humphrey Bogart

The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

There's not enough money, there's not enough...
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
Humphrey Bogart

This is the stuff that dreams are made of.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Too bad, but it's the ones you love that you hate.
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

Uh-huh. You'll take it and like it.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Unless you're not what you seem to be... and I'm what I seem to be.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Until this day, we never knew what made us do it.
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Humphrey Bogart

Us, uh, crazy kids.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

We'll always have Paris.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

Well, I'm not going to be a fool at my age. I'm going to be a fool at the age I am.
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

Well, that's, uh, that's the way it goes.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
Humphrey Bogart

What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart

When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Who am I to refuse the world?
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Humphrey Bogart

Why did you have to go and do that for?
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

You know, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Casablanca (1942)
Humphrey Bogart

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
Humphrey Bogart

You're not very tall, are you?
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how far you can go.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

You're a good man, sister. A good man.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

You're a very smart guy, and I like you. But don't get too smart.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

You're getting paid to let people push you around?
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

Your story's too perfect. It's too... pat.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart

The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

The market will pay better to entertain than educate.
Warren Buffett

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns

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