"Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I'd probably fall in love."

“I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.”

Source : "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”

“There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]”

“I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.”

“I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'”

Source : "Felicity Huffman is sitting pretty" by William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 21, 2005.

“I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.”

“I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.”

“They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”