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."

Angelina Jolie

"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

"If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."

"If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all my different sides of me, I would probably be locked up."

"People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own."


"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."

"I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy."

"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet."

"I struggle with low self-esteem all the time. I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable."

"I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark."

"People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life."

"Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy."

"I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause."

Clint Eastwood

"Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him."

"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to control it."

"Sometimes if you want to see change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."

"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves."

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."

"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."

"I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live."

"My old drama coach used to say, `Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."

"Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. If I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people."

"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."

"I think those soldiers deserve a certain amount of respect. I feel terrible for both sides in that war, and in all wars. A lot of innocent people get sacrificed."

"This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."

Tina Fey

"Somewhere around the 5th or 7th grade, I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me, but after awhile it became part of my identity."

"I'm not that good looking, nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen."



"You can't be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, over-thinking it. You have to go down the chute."

"You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at."

"It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film."

"When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny."

"A Harvard medical school study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss."

"If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs."

"Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion."

"I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement."

"I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math."

"I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey."

Adam Sandler

"My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire."

"I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron."

"Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot."

"A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard."

"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it."

"I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing Maria from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up."

"I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that."

"I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead."

"I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at."

"I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience."

"If I do die, it'll be in America. And it won't be on a snowboard. It'll either be on a toilet or hanging from a belt, naked."

Eddie Murphy

"I'd Like to produce, direct, write, score and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did."

"I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does."

"I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned  at least the right to relax."

"I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful."

"You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work."

"In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece."

"If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence."

"The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top five all time best actors."

"I would love to be in one of those Batman movies. Jim Carrey did the Riddler once and he did a wonderful job. Egghead, I could be Egghead."

"I know what I'm capable of doing and what I'm capable of not doing. To be perfectly honest, I'm a little afraid of doing a straight dramatic film. I'm not saying I couldn't do it. I'm saying I'm afraid to. Everybody is afraid of failure."

"Think of all the people who came off that show. I bet you could figure out the combined grosses of people who came off Saturday Night Live in the movies; me, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Mike Myers, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd. I bet it's $15 billion."

Lindsay Lohan

"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, It's going to be a good day."

"I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible, but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes."

"Say no more than yes, and just make sure you surround yourself with good people."


"I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the `party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance."

"The biggest misconception is that I don't have my head in the right place."

"Hopefully people know me for my work, not my car accidents."

"I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base."

"I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well."

"People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something."

"I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then."

"I still need to go through the process of proving myself."

"Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?"

Paul McCartney

"I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest."

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."

"When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting."



"The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly."

"The basic thing in my mind was that for all our success the Beatles were always a great little band. Nothing more, nothing less."

"What I do is I look for the positive side. I'm the only guy who sat down with John and wrote all those songs. It's me. I've got to pinch myself, I can't believe it. I just feel blessed to have known him and to have experience his presence so intimately."

"I'm really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding."

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard Heartbreak Hotel I thought, this is it."

"I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache."

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."

"The things is, we're all really the same person. We're just four parts of the one."

"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway."