American Quotes

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I've been dying to play.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

Autumn is my favorite season.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

I'll never starve.

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.