Benicio del Toro

“I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.”

“I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.”

“I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.”

“I feel like if they put me in the driver's seat, I'm going to take the wheel.”


- Benicio del Toro

Ava Gardner

“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”

“I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.”

“I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.”

“Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]”

“I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.”

“I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.”

“After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"”

“Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.”

“I have only one rule in acting: trust the director and give him heart and soul.”

Frances McDormand

“I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.”

- Frances McDormand

Grace Kelly

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.


Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.


For a woman, forty is torture, the end.


Getting angry doesn't solve anything.


I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.


I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.


I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.


If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.


Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.


The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.


Woman's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.


- Grace Kelly




Happy birthday, Grace.

Twiggy

I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things...!

I'm basically an up kind of person, not a depressive one. So whatever's happening, my head doesn't get that down and moody... I didn't get into a particularly swinging way of life, as the press would have liked to make out. We never went to parties because we hated them. I've really had a boring, ordinary life on the social level. I haven't been to all-night parties and I haven't had a million boyfriends and my favourite pastimes are still the same, sitting at home watching telly or going to a nice restaurant for dinner or having an evening at home sewing.

They called me an "elongated matchstick", "the original million-dollar baby doll". You were supposed to look like Brenda Lee, very curvy and round, pointed breasts and pointed toe shoes. In all these pictures of me around twelve I'm wearing a brassiere with Kleenex stuffed in it...Most of the pictures of me taken then, I hate now

What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.

At sixteen, I was funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

Jane Seymour

“You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.”

“Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.”

“Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.”

“Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.”

“You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.”

“Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.”


- Jane Seymour

Marion Davies

"With me it was 5 per cent talent and 95 per cent publicity."

- Marion Davies