"Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face."

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."

"In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice."

"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad."

"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."

"When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false"

"Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination"

"Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory."

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

"Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household."

"The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another."

"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."

"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."

"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could."

"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office."

"The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off."

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare"

"The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit"

"It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action."

"Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter."

"I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all."