14 quotes found
“Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?”
“Do you think he's the murderer?""It's worse than that -- he's an actor!”
“A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.”
“If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.”
“It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”
“I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.”
“Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an inve...”
“Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they...”
“Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...”
“Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achiev...”
“Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of?...”
“Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning building...”
“I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.”
“She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible un...”
