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2025
“It doesn’t make sense to make [my movies] for more money because I’m making noncommercial work.” — Kentucker Audleyoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2025
11 Nov 2025
“Each time I see it, I know I accomplished what I set out to do as an actress, that I created a person.” — Bibi Andersson on Personaoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2025
10 Nov 2025
“Here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to – and all without hurting anybody.” — Claude Rainsoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
9 Nov 2025
5 Nov 2025
“A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.” — journalist Ida Tarbelloriginal ↗
5 Nov 2025
“People say I’m a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.” — Joel McCreaoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2025
3 Nov 2025
1 Nov 2025
“I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not to be among the greatest.” –John Keatsoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025
“Out of the inevitable conflict of images – … the womb of war – I try to make that momentary peace which is a poem.” — poet Dylan Thomasoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
27 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025
“My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.” — Katherine Dunnoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
“Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.” — Catherine Deneuveoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025
“My thoughts bustle along like a Surinam toad, with little toads sprouting out of back, side, and belly, vegetating while it crawls.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridgeoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2025
“If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.” — Carrie Fisheroriginal ↗
21 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025
“Acting gives me permission that maybe I don’t give myself in real life.” — Gillian Jacobsoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2025
18 Oct 2025
“How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?” –Miriam Hopkinsoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2025
“I’m not the person I was at 28. The passion is still there but the rage mostly isn’t.” — Marshall Mathersoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2025
“I watched myself in Red River and I knew I was going to be famous, so I decided I would get drunk anonymously one last time.” – Montgomery Cliftoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2025
“Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my ‘summer camp.’ How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?” — Rita Hayworthoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” — Oscar Wildeoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
“I mean, that’s the community of what we do, the difference between me and a streaming service. You actually know it’s me.” — Bob Mouldoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
14 Oct 2025
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination…think twice before you think.” — E.E. Cummingsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2025
13 Oct 2025
10 Oct 2025
10 Oct 2025
“Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.” — Ciarán Carsonoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2025
7 Oct 2025
“If someone spends his life writing the truth without caring for the consequences, he inevitably becomes a political authority in a totalitarian regime.” — Václav Haveloriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
“[At Swim-Two-Birds is] just the book to give to your sister, if she is a dirty, boozey girl.” – Dylan Thomas on Flann O’Brien’s masterpieceoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
“All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?” — Buster Keatonoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2025
“The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.” — Stevie Ray Vaughanoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2025
30 Sept 2025
“Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from his mouth.” — The Killeroriginal ↗
29 Sept 2025
26 Sept 2025
“Our humour is armour… a shield used to deflect doom and gloom.” — John Lynch on Irish-nessoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2025
“Paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.” — William Faulkner on his writing requirementsoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2025
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” — F. Scott Fitzgeraldoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2025
“I couldn’t accept the possibility that the life of the woman would not, or could not, be named in the poetry of my own nation.” — Eavan Bolandoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2025
23 Sept 2025
“I am the old story. L’histoire ancienne. But an old story can still be a good story, no?” — Anna Karinaoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2025
“More Than This / There Is Nothing”: Bill Murray in Lost in Translation for Sofia Coppola Monthoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2025
“People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.” — Maggie Cheungoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2025
19 Sept 2025
“I think I’m a character actress in a leading lady’s body, but the industry doesn’t really see me that way.” — Sanaa Lathanoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2025
18 Sept 2025
“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.” — Greta Garbooriginal ↗
18 Sept 2025
“I refuse to have what is known in the trade as a ‘coherent metaphysic.'” — Mícheál Ó hAirtnéideoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2025
“I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin’ like myself.” — Hank Williamsoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
“I swear my next project is going to be something really simple and focused and minimal.” — Baz Luhrmannoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
“When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.” — Mickey Rourkeoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
This Could Be A Total Bust, or Mickey Rourke Inside The Actor’s Studio, by Brendan O’Malleyoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
“I’ve always felt that work – learning from people who know more than I know – is what keeps you going.” — Lauren Bacalloriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.” — poet Claude McKayoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2025
“A vast amount of rubbish is published in the name of art. A man should let his work talk for him. ” — Charles Dana Gibsonoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2025
12 Sept 2025