"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."

“I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.”

“All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.”

“It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.”

Source : Vera Brittain (1953). “Lady Into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II”

“The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.”

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

Source : "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by Jonathon Green (p. 340), 1982.

“Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.”

“All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I came to singing organically.”