Groucho Marx

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you're got it made."

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."

"Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him."

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."

"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

David Bowie

"I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously."

"I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or martians."

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."

"I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is it gets you a seat in restaurants."

"The only thing I ever got out of fame was a better table in a restaurant. And for that I gave up being able to relate to people."

"I once asked Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but it's just rock and roll with lipstick on.' "

"I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman."

"Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place."

"You would think that a rock star being married to a super model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is."

"It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be."

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."

Salma Hayek

"No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone."

"Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it."

"I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age."

"I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing."

"I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested.

"If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice."

"Go for the style that fits your body type the best. Have your own voice in the way you dress."

"I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic."

"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."

"My heart has been stolen too, but I've gone and got it back every single time!"

"I aim for a lifetime full of movies."

James Cameron

"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director."

"There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith."

"I don't look at scripts, I just write them."


"I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you."

"I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism."

"People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing."

"Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. Don't put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you. Don't do that to yourself. Don't bet against yourself. And take a risk."

"I went from driving a truck to becoming a movie director, with a little time working with Roger Corman in between."

"I was petrified at the start of Terminator. First of all, I was working with a star, at least I thought of him as a star at the time. Arnold came out of it even more of a star."

"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up shots."

Ryan Reynolds

"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"

"My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something."

"I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place."

"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis."

"I used to backpack when I was younger. I think I can actually say that I can't do the hostel thing anymore, I'm a little too spoiled."

"I'm always terrified at the beginning. Then I start working and get past my fear, which is a real win for me."

"Usually some of the best stuff comes from having something great on the page already, so you're sort of inspired by it."

"I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close."

"It wasn't until my mid-20s that I began to fall in love with it, and see the possibilities, and embrace all the actor crap that I used to get so embarrassed about. In the early days it was all just about cracking one-liners, not being vulnerable."

Al Pacino

"Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them."

"All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on Dancing With The Stars mainly because I would be too shy."

"An actor with too much money will usually find a way to get rid of it."

"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."


"Every time I'd run into Marlon Brando on set, my face would turn red and I'd start laughing. Have you any idea what it was like to do a scene with Brando? I sat in movie houses when I was a kid watching Brando in A streetcar Named Desire and Viva Zapata! Now I'm playing a scene with him."

"I was a kid when Dean came out. Dean was the inspiration. Even the red jacket he wore in Rebel Without A Cause, you saw that red jacket popping up all over the place. He really reached people in a way; it was kind of a phenomenon when you think of it. I wonder what it would be like today, that kind of a person...he made that connection with his audience. And I remember at that time my mother loved him. He reached everybody."

"When I was doing Scarface, I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, `look, you really got me through this picture', because I would shed everything when I came home."

"I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools."

"I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx."

"Vanity is my favorite sin."

Demi Moore & Ashton Kutcher

Demi: "The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."

Ashton: "I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball."

Demi: "There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself."

Ashton: "I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead."

Demi: "Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not."


Ashton: "Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that."

Demi: "I had worked my whole life. Until I become a mother, that's the only way I measured my value."

Ashton: When someone needs us, he or she needs all of us."

Demi: "I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the aging process."

Ashton: "I say whatever I think and  whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun."

Demi: "Family always comes first because that's what you have at the end of your life. Your work is just what we get to do, which is a real gift."

Ashton: It's a great lesson for life too, taking that pause before you do and act and being sure what you're doing is what you want to be doing."

Demi: "Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around."

Ashton: I guess you could say I am a romantic, I love life and I love people and I love sharing, so I think yes, I am, yes, I would qualify myself as that."