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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
—Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays (via violentwavesofemotion)
If I could be any celebrity dead or alive I’d go for Judy Garland.
—Selena Gomez during her interview with BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show (via jelena-all-news)
There is nothing more boring than self-pity.
—Judy Garland (via dreamsgoneastray)
mattybing1025: In her first and only meeting with the famous macho actor Marlon Brando, early in her career at Paramount, the two were seated next to each other at an Actor’s Guild luncheon. As they sat down, Audrey said a shy hello. Brando said not a single word to her during the entire dinner. For 40 years, Ferrer says, his mother believed that Brando had shunned her. But in the hospital near the end of her life, she received a letter from the famous actor. A mutual friend must have told him of Hepburn’s feelings, and he wrote to set the record straight. Although she might have been shy of him at that luncheon, he recalled that he had been so much in awe of her that he was speechless. He couldn’t think of a single thing to say. —Excerpt from Audrey Hepburn:  A Son’s Reflections

Once you accept yourself you will realise your true motives for wanting someone you can’t have. If you want to be with them to compensate for your own shortcomings, you will no longer want them. If you want them because you want to be like their ideal partner, then you will become that person. So there is never a need to change yourself for someone else.

Oh my GOD.

(Source: tapping.com)

Design is thinking made visual.
—Saul Bass, graphic designer
It’s only natural that you wouldn’t understand, Henri. You see, you chase after anything in skirts—ANYTHING—they’re all the same to you, but lots of men can tell them apart. Believe me, sometimes they find one they like better than the other. That’s called love, you probably haven’t experienced it, but you must have read about it somewhere.
—Lt. Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) to Capt. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) in I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
humansofnewyork: “Don’t look to other people for validation. Your birth was your validation.”
steamboatbilljr: So much in life seems to be compromise. Why can’t we have the best? Why can’t we be better than we are? Why can’t we enrich our lives with appreciation of the arts, with books? Why can’t that all be at least as important as making money, having a bigger house, a newer car? Why do we have to be submerged in commercialism? Why is tearing down a sign of progress instead of preserving? And there are many more whys. The big why to me in America is why don’t we take the time to see what is around us—the earth, the sea, the sky? Are people so busy chasing the hours, hurrying them along so they can get to that first martini? I myself have been guilty of losing time—wasting it. However, the last few years I have become too aware of the passing of time—the losing of it.  (Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some)
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