"I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star."

-- Ed Begley, Jr.

#Stars Quotes #Children Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!”
“When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.”
“I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.”
“Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech.”
“I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.”
“I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.”
“It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and understands the varying circumstances and complexities of our lives.”
“For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.”

Source : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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