Janet Jackson Quote

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

Ewan McGregor

• Children

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

Ewan McGregor

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Sam Mendes

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Michelangelo

• God

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

Sam Mendes

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.

Scarlett Johansson

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Maya Angelou

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

Liam Neeson

• Success
• People

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Armand Assante

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

Richard Gere

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Children

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

Quentin Tarantino

• Faith

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Ted Turner

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love.

Paulo Coelho

• Life
• Flowers

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

Sigourney Weaver

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

Sandra Bullock

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

James Joyce

• Courage

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

Owen Wilson

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

Princess Diana

• Marriage