Euripides Quotes
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Quotes to Explore
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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Bullies always have another target.
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
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I think abortion is murder.
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I ask myself why do these worshipers of this God want to convict him of being such a crummy designer - most of his creations die off, the rest suffer miserably; of being cruel and capricious and bungling and incompetent and callous as a father? www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHapkLeSGo?t=24m23s
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Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.
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Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
