Jennifer Aniston

"I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special."

"I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!"

"I always say don't make plans, make options."


"When something becomes successful, people love to just trash it and rip it down from the pedestal that they themselves have put you on."

"When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed."

"Everybody who has ever been snubbed, You know that is very humiliating."

"The most unconditional love that you can encounter is with a dog. They're excited the minute you come home, and they show the same amount of excitement everyday. They're loyal and they're always, always faithful."

"I was a Duran Duran freak. And freak is the perfect word to describe my behavior during that decade."

"I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies."

"Do I have days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely."

"As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more."

"If we can say, 'I loved, and I received a lot of love,' then great. That's enough."

Steven Spielberg

"I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives."

"People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning."

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination. Anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."

"Disney is the birthplace of imagination and has always been as close to the worldwide audience as any company ever has."

"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times."

"Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at four films. They tend to be Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's a wonderful Life and The Searchers."

"I've never used John Williams to tell people how to feel. I use John Williams to enhance my vision and my thoughts emotionally from scene to scene."

"Being a movie maker means you get to live many, many lifetimes. It's the same reason audiences go to movies."

"When you listen. you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time."

"I always like to think of the audience when I'm directing. Because I am the audience."

"I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction."

"All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives."

Quentin Tarantino

"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. I'll be the crazy old movie guy."

"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."

"I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't."

"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence."

"I'm not James Cameron and I could never think like that. I don't think he could think like me either...but if I could go into a time machine and think like that and be able to do what he could do, that would be great."

"If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it."

"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had faith in me to get their money back."

"There's only one list that's more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d'Or. It's the list of directors who didn't."

"L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet."

"If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do."

"I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify it's existence, without apologies."

"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."

Tom Hanks

"Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are."

"No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay."

"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."



"There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them."

"Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?"

"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood."

"My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire."

"As a boy I'd often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasn't until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors."

"If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay."

"If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up."

"I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me."

Jane Fonda

"You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do."

"I'm a very brave person, I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if it means I'm going to end up alone."

"Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution."

"I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent."

"When I start down a path that I know is the right path, I go with all of me."

"Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working."

"The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole."

"We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that."

"It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics."

"One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go."

"When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed."

"It's always great to rehearse on a plane because people think you're mad."

"It's never too late. Never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."

Conan O'Brien

"If you laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk."

"There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more."

"Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it's my least favorite quality. It doesn't lead anywhere. No one in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."

It's your first month at college and you haven't made any friends. Well, learn from my experience. You won't. Ever. You'll walk the earth a sad, lonely, red-headed freak. Then one day, inexplicably, you'll be given a TV show. Then people will have to talk to you. So hang in there."

"I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too."

"It's not easy doing a late-night show on a channel without a lot of money and that viewers have trouble finding. So that's why I left NBC."

"I'm not comfortable with my own body. I shower with my clothes on."

"There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized."

"My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point."

"I've dreamed of being a talk show host on basic cable ever since I was 46."

"If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice."

"When all else fails there's always delusion."

Meryl Streep

"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband. He just says keep going. Start by starting."

"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."

"Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children."

"There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material."

"I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot."


"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."

"We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you're low. we need each other in that way."

"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."

"You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you."

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

"You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing."

"Instant gratification is not soon enough."

Tom Cruise

"I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?"

"I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to."

"I've never done work for money ever.If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."


"I disagree with people who think you can learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."

"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."

"We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever."

"I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities."

"What do I want? I want a world without war. I want a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. And I don't even think that it's as much of what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me."

"Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast."

"When you look at life, it could be a lot better. It's not good enough for me to just do well."

"I always look for a challenge and something that's different."

"I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life."

John Cleese

"The only way I can get a leading man role is if I write it."

"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire and that's to get rid of all my other desires."

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."

"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth."

"I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!"



"I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy."

"You go in and meet the head of BBC one and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course, a few months later he's been replaced by someone you haven't met."

"Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me."

"I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive."

"Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food."

"A man will give up almost anything except his suffering."

"I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do."

"He who laughs most, learns best."

Woody Allen

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? in that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out my nose."

"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right."

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."



"Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions."

"I have never been an intellectual, but I have this look."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

"I took a speed reading course and read War And Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

"In Beverly Hills they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all."

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

Elizabeth Taylor

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."

"Everything makes me nervous, except making films."

"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."

"I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt."

"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be open and I'm not afraid to look behind them."

"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down."


"I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on."

"Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells."

"I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions."

Johnny Depp

"I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled."

"People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less."

"I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it."

"We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us."

"I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience."

"I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it"

"The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job."

"I'm an old fashioned guy. I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something."

"On a film you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family."

"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll go back to selling pens again."

"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."

"If you catch me saying I am a serious actor, I beg you to slap me."

Jerry Seinfeld

"Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge."

"Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV"

"Make no mistake about why these babies are here, they are here to replace us."

"Why do they call it a building? It looks like they're finished. Why isn't it a built."

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."

"Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support and a little bit of freedom."

"If a book about failure doesn't sell, is it a success?"

"The four levels of comedy: make your friends laugh, make strangers laugh, get paid to make strangers laugh and make people talk like you because it's so much fun."

"I don't like great restaurants. I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special put them on the menu. I don't want any auditioning foods. When they make the real show, then I will eat them."

"I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular sized and my muscles are huge."

"The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy."

"The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning."

Steven Wright

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

"How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?"

"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something."

"I bought some batteries, but they weren't included."

"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."

"It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature."

I woke up this morning and couldn't find my socks, so I called information. She said they were behind the couch. She was right."

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."

"I put instant coffee in the microwave and almost went back in time."

"Ballerinas are always on their toes. Why don't they just get taller ballerinas?"

"I bought some dehydrated water, but I don't know what to add to it."

"I spilled Spot Remover on my dog. Now he's gone."

"I invented the cordless extension cord."

Eminem

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."

"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down."

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a babysitter."

"A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious."

 "I had nothing to lose, but something to gain. If I made an album for me and it was to my satisfaction, then I succeeded."

"We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house."

"Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me."

"I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker."

"It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people."

"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."

" I need to keep working on myself for a while."

Oprah Winfrey

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes."

"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."


"It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it."

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

"Some women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if  necessary. I have a weakness for books."

"Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life."

"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."

"I always knew I was destined for greatness."

Bob Hope

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."

"Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees."

"I asked my good friend Arnold Palmer how I could improve my game, he advised me to cheat."

"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

"I have performed for twelve presidents and entertained six."

"Your ignorance cramps my conversation."

"The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast."

"Three of my stocks went off the financial page, into the help wanted section."

"I'm an international player. I can say `shank' in twenty-seven languages."

"I don't like political jokes. I have seen too many of them get elected."

"I though 'Deep Throat' was a movie about a giraffe."

"The girls call me pilgrim, because every time I dance with one I make a little progress."

"You and me could make music together. Right now I feel like the philharmonic."

"It's nights like these that drive men like me to women like you for nights like this."

David Letterman

"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."

"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."

"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."

"I love autumn in New York. The yellows, the browns and the rust...and that's just the drinking water."

"I cannot sing, dance or act. What else would I be but a talk show host."


"A woman in Buffalo set a new world record for eating 183 buffalo wings. I don't think there will be a second date."

"If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever."

"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."

"New York...when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you."

"President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger."

"Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines."

"We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting foo."

"There is no off position on the genius switch."

Bill Murray

"There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a twenty-four hour job."

"Groundhog Day was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award."

"No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life."

"I've had some success in movies, so I really don't think about success. You like to have it, but I'm not desperate for it."

"Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time."

"The first forty-five minutes of the original Ghostbusters is some of the funniest stuff ever made. The second one was disappointing because the special effects guys took over. I had something like two scenes and they're the only funny ones in the movie."

"I don't have a problem talking about my work, but I don't make a habit of talking about myself. There are people who are obsessed with information about my life, what clothes I'm wearing and what my exercise regime is. I'm not interested in that."

"The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently."

"The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything. The better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself."

Mick Jagger

"As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen."

"I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over."

"People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten."



"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."

"I've managed to avoid tattoos so far."

"I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags."

"I'm totally anti-nostalgia; I never listen to old Rolling Stones records. I'm not really interested in them. They're funny, sometimes, to hear."

"It's an overwhelming feeling, the audience. That must be why most of these people never give up performing. Because they just can't go without that sort of rush."

"People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Woman for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people."

" The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn't a real comparison with anyone now."

"I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs."

Kurt Cobain

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all."

"If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop."

"I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me."


"I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want."

"I've always had a problem with the average macho man. They've always been a threat to me."

"Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle."

"Jocks have completely taken over music. Just to get back at them, I'm going to start playing basketball."

"I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar, hide in the back and just play."

"It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than be loved for who I am not."

Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

"I'm selfish, impatient and insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control and at times, hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best"

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."

"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."

"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."



"To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not size zero, you're the beautiful one, it's society who's ugly."

"I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances."

"Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

"I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress."

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."

"I'm very definitely a woman And I enjoy It."