James Thurber // "Beautiful things don't ask for attention."
Arthur Miller // "What do you do?" ...many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know... Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.
Helena Bonham Carter // "There's no pressing pause. You've just got to say goodbye all the time, but also say hello. You must remember to say hello."
Marina Abramovic // "The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre. The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind."
David Bowie // "Life. I love life very much indeed."
Marion Cotillard // "I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you."
Elia Kazan // "The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It's to survive as yourself, undiminished."
Erykah Badu // "In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, 'I got to wake up' say, 'I get to wake up!'"
Meryl Streep // "Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple."
Katharine Hepburn // "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get...only what you are expecting to give—which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."
Salvador Dali // "...I very early realized, instinctively, my life formula: to get others to accept as natural the excesses of one’s personality and thus to relieve oneself of his own anxieties by creating a sort of collective participation."
Eugene O'Neill // "The best I can do is to try to encourage you to work hard at something you really want to do and have the ability to do. Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy... What I am trying to get firmly planted in your mind is this: In the really important decisions of life, others cannot help you. No matter how much they would like to. You must rely on yourself. That is the fate of each one of us. It can’t be changed. It just is like that."