it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like. ' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you sold the most precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the goods nor the meanness of the prize. Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.
Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.
But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?