Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise. Knowing that is hugely liberating as well as artistically clarifying. Being practical about where your money comes from means you can be romantic about your writing. I believe that a healthy society is one that supports its artists, but I also know that that privilege, of being only an artist, is afforded to just a small number. Most of us have to find something else - or live a highly disciplined life, which I'm not willing to do.
Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.