"The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive."

“A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.”

“I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.”

Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company

“Every other religion gives you directions on how to find God, but Jesus takes you to Him.”

“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.”

“Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.”

“This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.”

“His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.”

Source : Aaron Elkins (2014). “Dead Men's Hearts”, p.51, Open Road Media

“If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.”