"If someone tells you something cannot be done; it's just their way of saying they cannot do it"

“What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.”

“I often say that good crisis management is good decision-making under stress.”

“Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely a good news.”

“For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.”

“I think I'm a very intuitive actress.”

Source : "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

“It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.”

“My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”