"Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love."

“I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'”

“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.”

“In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in her own writing, she's very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they're accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“Oh no! This is bad. I think my heart was just stolen a little”

“Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?”

“Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.”

Source : "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Romola Garai, Nicci Gerrard, Anna Smith, Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

“I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.”