"The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie."

-- Charlie Kaufman

“Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical”
“Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.”
“The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someoneâ€™s darkness, we donâ€™t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someoneâ€™s darkness, we donâ€™t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.”
“Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.”
“A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.”
“Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.”
“Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.”
“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”

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