"I could be one if I wanted to, I'm just way too overqualified for a job that simple."

“It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.”

Source : Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.45, Canongate Books

“Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?”

“All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.”

“I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.”

“The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.”

Source : What I Saw at the Revolution ch. 14 (1990)

“We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames”

“Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.”