"It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids."

“I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.”

“All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space.”

“Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.”

“Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.”

“I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.”

“I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.”

Source : "Alan Rickman: Truly, deeply appealing". articles.latimes.com. November 20, 2011.

“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.”

“I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.”

Source : "George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis Call it Quits" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2011.