"'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun."

“There's was no pressure on it for me - I just went in and had fun. Whatever Jason Moore, the director, asked me to do, I did it! I ran around the room acting like a crazy guest on "Jerry Springer" and yelling at the audience. I just went for it.”

“When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.”

“I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.”

“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.65, St. Martin's Griffin

“Forget fashion, dress for comfort and for ease of getting through security, so no hats, belts or unnecessary accessories.”

“Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

“So you have your price. Your soul for a cookie.”

“nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.”

Source : "'Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit' ('Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man')". Book by Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by T. Churchill. Book 5, 1803.