"Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life."

“I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.”

“I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.”

“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.”

“If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.”

“I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.”

Source : "'Gossip Girl' star Taylor Momsen talks her debut single, upcoming album, and why she doesn't like pants". Interview With Tim Stack, ew.com. April 22, 2010.

“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.”

“I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.”

“I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.”

Source : "Here, Baby, Here! Amy Ryan on The Office and Win Win". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 18, 2011.