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2026
“It’s a situation I’ve never been able to fathom. One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle, the next — no one wanted me.” — Sal Mineooriginal ↗
10 Jan 2026
“We’re not breaking new ground. We’re trying to be entertaining within a format that’s familiar.” — Walter Hilloriginal ↗
10 Jan 2026
“I feel I’m writing for everyone, but they haven’t discovered it yet. They will – I’ll just be six feet under.” — Scott Walkeroriginal ↗
9 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026
“I was looking for what was coming from a man’s soul and a man’s conviction.” — Sam Phillipsoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026
“I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn’t know what the thing was. It’s the honor what I loved.” — Elizabeth Cottenoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026
4 Jan 2026
“A lot of people don’t like to think. They get annoyed when you ask them to.” — Thelma Schoonmakeroriginal ↗
3 Jan 2026
“I had not directed anything before. In fact I hadn’t told anyone to do anything before.” — Dorothy Arzneroriginal ↗
3 Jan 2026
“We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.” — Oscar Micheauxoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026
1 Jan 2026
2025
31 Dec 2025
30 Dec 2025
“Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.” — Victor Sergeoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
“In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.” — Marlene Dietrichoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2025
24 Dec 2025
“There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.” — Jonas Mekasoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2025
“It is a pity that the poet should be compelled to impart interest and force to his subject, instead of receiving them from it.” — poet and critic Matthew Arnoldoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2025
“The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have, else they will never have better.” — Harriet Monroeoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2025
“I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” — Rebecca Westoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
“I sucked my fingers for 12 years. I never spoke … but I was a great observer.” — Cicely Tysonoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2025
18 Dec 2025
“I can only work against bourgeois society. I can never work with it or through it.” — Erwin Piscatororiginal ↗
17 Dec 2025
“The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.” — Liv Ullmannoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2025
14 Dec 2025
“Here I was, stuck in the middle of a dying nation with all these funny looking children who didn’t even realize the world was coming to an end, and now on top of everything else they expected me to turn my room into a hippie crash pad!” — Lester Bangsoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2025
14 Dec 2025
“I dont want to just do just country type stuff the rest of my life. I want to do some different things.” — Charlie Richoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2025
“When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.” — Ellen Willisoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2025
13 Dec 2025
“I’ve never looked at myself as a woman in the business. I’ve just looked at myself as an editor.” — Anne V. Coatesoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2025
11 Dec 2025
11 Dec 2025
“I can’t read music, but I know what I’m singing! I don’t sing like nobody but myself.” — Big Mama Thorntonoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
“The best actors in the world are those who feel the most and show the least.” — Jean-Louis Trintignantoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
“Every day life feels mightier, and what we have the power to be, more stupendous.” — Emily Dickinsonoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2025
9 Dec 2025
“I take it to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature, to leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.” — John Miltonoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2025
“In real life you aren’t allowed to say you’re angry but in music you can say anything.” — Sinéad O’Connororiginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
“As an artist, I wonder, What can I do to make the audience think differently about what good is, what bad is, who a man is, and who a woman is.” — Matthias Schoenaertsoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
“Really, there isn’t such a thing as ‘method acting.’ There’s only good acting and bad acting.” — Ellen Burstynoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2025
5 Dec 2025
“Even to this day, I watch The Wizard of Oz like I did when I was five years old. I get really involved in it.” — Lynne Ramsayoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2025
“The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language.” — Joan Didionoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2025
3 Dec 2025
3 Dec 2025
“I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.” — Terrence Malickoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2025
“I thought girls in their teens might like to read [Anne of Green Gables], that was the only audience I hoped to reach.” — L.M. Montgomeryoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2025
“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.” — Jonathan Swiftoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2025
“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.” — poet/engraver/visionary William Blakeoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2025
25 Nov 2025
“It seems to me that an Englishman in France is an expat, but an Irishman is an exile.” — Derek Mahonoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2025
“[I wish] to trace the gradual action of ordinary causes rather than exceptional.” — George Eliotoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2025
“I would rather use light to draw with instead of making thousands of drawings.” — Mary Ellen Buteoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2025
18 Nov 2025
“I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I’m selling? No.” — Owen Wilsonoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2025
“If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.” — Jeff Buckleyoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
15 Nov 2025
“I learned to act while watching Martha Graham dance and I learned to move in film from watching Chaplin.” — Louise Brooksoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2025