Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‚I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!‘ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

The good is the beautiful.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Beauty without expression is boring.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.