American Quotes

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.