"I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices."

“Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.”

“We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.”

“The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.”

“the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.”

“Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.”

“Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (1937). “Speeches, Articles, and Letters of Israel Zangwill”

“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.”

“I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete [Jackson] has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.”

Source : "I'll never move to Hollywood, says Saoirse Ronan" by Antoinette Kelly, www.irishcentral.com. February 18, 2010.