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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.