"The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ."

“I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.”

“Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.”

“I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.”

“You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.”

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

“There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one...”

“As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once again she could watch Spring and Summer and Fall and Winter come and go. Once again she was lived in and taken care of. Never again would she be curious about the city... Never again would she want to live there... The stars twinkled above her... A new moon was coming up... It was Spring... And all was quiet and peaceful in the country.”

“They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.”

Source : Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.35, Hol Art Books

“It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.”

Source : "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.