"I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do."

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”

“Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.”

Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

“Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.”

“Let the business of the world take care of itself ... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.”

“I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.”

“Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.”

“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”

“If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.”

Source : "Rowlands celebrates 6 decades in film with honorary Oscar". The Associated Press interview, www.arabnews.com. November 12, 2015.