"If you haven't seen me lasso, you haven't lived."

“Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.”

“If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.”

“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”

Source : "Taken Care Of" by Edith Sitwell, (Ch. 19), 1965.

“Every town has an Elm Street.”

Source : "Fictional character: Freddy Krueger". "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare", 1991.

“The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.”

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

“It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.”

“Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.”

Source : "Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage, Smoking Pot and 'Real Love'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. August 5, 2009.