Jennifer Connelly Quote

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Jeremy Irons

• Children

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Ewan McGregor

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

Keanu Reeves

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Karl Lagerfeld

I learned a lot last year about the current difficulties in independent film making. Money is promised one minute and gone the next. I was bitterly disappointed about Scheherazade. It was one of the best scripts I have ever read.

Juliette Binoche

We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.

Carlos Castaneda

• Inspirational
• Spiritual warrior

It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

Mae West

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Martin Luther

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

Kate Winslet

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin

• Reality
• Imagination

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

• People

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

• Self-discovery

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Victor Hugo

• Woman
• Listening

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

Cameron Diaz

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Billie Jean King

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

Ralph Fiennes

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Morgan Freeman

• Intuition

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

Ewan McGregor