Voltaire Quote

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

Steven Soderbergh

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

Jennifer Aniston

On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

Martin Scorsese

• Change

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.

Monica Bellucci

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

Angelina Jolie

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

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

Claude Debussy

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Oliver Stone

• Beauty

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

Charlize Theron

• Belief

That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.

Jennifer Connelly

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Isadora Duncan

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.

Emma Thompson

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

Camille Claudel

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Mae West

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

Yuri Gagarin

I need to work to feel well.

Edouard Manet

One eye sees, the other feels.

Paul Klee

By the work one knows the workman.

Jean de La Fontaine

Do your work and I shall know you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Society

I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.

Monica Bellucci