They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. Francis Ford Coppola
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte Friendship
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. Honore de Balzac
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. Anais Nin World Woman
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. Henry David Thoreau
I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh. Lisa Kudrow
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
I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs. Roman Polanski
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. Honore de Balzac Destiny
Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy. Lucy Liu
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore. Annie Lennox
I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children. Nicole Kidman
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was. Reese Witherspoon Religion Spirituality