"To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat."

“Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.”

“I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.”

“If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.”

“See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.84, Penguin

“When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.”

“If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.”

Source : "Alice Eve and Stanley Tucci Talk SOME VELVET MORNING, Making a Movie in One Space with Two Actors, 1:30 TRAIN, CATCHING FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

“He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.”

“It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.”