"Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired."

“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”

Source : Jenny Colgan (2011). “Meet Me At The Cupcake Café”, p.45, Hachette UK

“My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.”

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

“Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

Source : 1959 'The Sublime and the Good'.

“Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.”

Source : Elsa Lanchester (1938). “Charles Laughton and I”, Harcourt, Brace and company

“I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.”

“It doesn't really matter how rich you are, we're all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.”