If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Nicki Minaj, will you marry me?

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.