I always wondered what it took to "be good"

To work on oneself, to make clear that which confuses and depresses us, even if it entails the greatest pain--that is what is meant by being good.
- Rahel Levin Varnhagen, "Briefe," 1877

Risky Business

I hope I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause.
-Mr. Walker in The Village

Diane Keaton

"It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advatanges as well. Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realise that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by."


AND


On her nude scene in _Something's Gotta Give (1990)_ : "At this point, does it really matter? Nobody is looking at me the way I once imagined people would look at me, like with deviant thoughts. I think they just go, 'Huh. There it is. Intact.' "

Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.
-Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets

"... Other actors don't go around discussing who is the best actor in the world, because it's obvious - Marlon Brando is."


Jack Nicholson

Youth and Age

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young..."
-Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling