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Julie Andrews: All love shifts...

Julie Andrews: All love shifts...

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the...

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Joan Rivers: Anger is a...

Joan Rivers: Anger is a...

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly -- hurt, bitterness,...

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Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Writers are encouraged to keep 'em laughing and complain with good humor in order to win allies. The joke is always on...

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Betty Hutton: I think things...

Betty Hutton: I think things...

I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and...

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Joni Mitchell: Moons and Junes...

Joni Mitchell: Moons and Junes...

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked...

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: Society has never...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: Society has never...

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and...

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Nancy Reagan: I must say...

Nancy Reagan: I must say...

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

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Mary Astor: A person without...

Mary Astor: A person without...

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an...

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Sophia Loren: Getting ahead in...

Sophia Loren: Getting ahead in...

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent,...

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Mary Pickford: I was forced...

Mary Pickford: I was forced...

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young...

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Jeanne Moreau: Success is like...

Jeanne Moreau: Success is like...

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story . . . .

Source: In...

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Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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Debra Winger: I have a...

Debra Winger: I have a...

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

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Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

Lynn Fontanne: We can be...

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Source: On offers from Hollywood,...

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Loretta Swit: The very first...

Loretta Swit: The very first...

The very first month I played it [Shirley Valentine] I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that...

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Mrs Patrick Campbell: Do you know...

Mrs Patrick Campbell: Do you know...

Do you know why God withheld the sense of humour from women?
That we may love you instead of laughing at...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.


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Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Your world is as big as you make it.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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Sarah Knowles Bolton: Be glad today,...

Sarah Knowles Bolton: Be glad today,...

Be glad today, tomorrow may bring tears.
Be brave today, the darkest night will pass.
And golden rays will...

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