Actors & Celebrities

Esther, do not be afraid. Everything you want is on the other side of here.
Esther, Making the Cut (Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn fashion competition television show)

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
Gracie Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Marcel Archard

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
Ann Bancroft

But he has also stopped himself because he is dead right now.
Wolf Blitzer on CNN

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Old age ain't no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleonora Duse, actress (1858-1924)

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes (at 73)

Why endeavor to straighten the road of life? The faster we travel, the less there is to see.
Actress Helen Hayes

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn

Seeing a murder on television...will help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
Director Elia Kazan

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller

To complain too bitterly of the load of mischief that notoriety brings with it would mean that you are unsuited to the position you have made for yourself.
Elsa Lancaster

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

It's not hard to tell we was poor when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.
George Lindsey (American character actor)

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy

You know, you made this day a really special day. Just by being yourself. There’s only one person in the world like you. And I happen to like you just the way you are.
Fred Brooks McFeely (Fred Rogers grandfather)

You're not a bitch if you don't trust someone you've never met before.
Georgia and Karen, My Favorite Murder podcast

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch.
Jack Nicholson

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.
Actress Della Reese

If He has given us one marvelous gift, it is that He does not permit us to know the future. It would be unbearable.
Actor Edward G. Robinson

I think people don’t change very much when all they have is a finger pointed at them. I think the only way people change is in relation to somebody who loves them.
Fred Rogers

There are those of us who have been deprived of human confidence. Those who have not been able to develop the conviction that they have anything of value within. Their gap is rather a chasm. And they most often despair of creating any bridges to the land of what might be. They were not accepted as little children. … They were never truly loved by any important human other. … And so it seems to me that the most essential element in the development of any creation, any art or science, must be love.
Fred Rogers

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
Fred Rogers

There are three ways to ultimate success:
The first way is to be kind.
The second way is to be kind.
The third way is to be kind.
Fred Rogers

It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

Fred Rogers

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.

Fred Rogers

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.
Fred Rogers

I’d like to give you all an invisible gift. A gift of a silent minute to think about those who have helped you become who you are today. Some of them may be here right now. Some may be far away. Some, like my astronomy professor, may even be in heaven. But wherever they are, if they’ve loved you, and encouraged you, and wanted what was best in life for you, they’re right inside your self. And I feel that you deserve quiet time, on this special occasion, to devote some thought to them. So, let’s just take a minute, in honor of those that have cared about us all along the way. One silent minute...

Whomever you’ve been thinking about, imagine how grateful they must be, that during your silent times, you remember how important they are to you. It’s not the honors and the prizes, and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted. That we never have to fear the truth. That the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff.

Fred Rogers

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
Will Rogers (1879-1935), to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Gloria Steinem

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

You have to be at peace with yourself. I love to laugh. I think laughter can cure. You can see it in a person’s face. Around age forty, when your face has lost the glow of youth, what you are on the inside starts to form on the outside. Either the lines go up or they go down. If they go up, that’s a good sign.
Actress Elizabeth Taylor

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
Forrest Tucker (American actor)

Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter Ustinov

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West (1892-1980)

Domestic and foreign.
Mae West, when asked what two types of men she preferred