Experience is the best teacher.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You’ve always wanted me. You know why? Because I don’t try to kill your demons. I run with them.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I like storms. Thunder torrential rain, puddles, wet shoes. When the clouds roll in, I get filled wi...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You turn me on.” He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.” PENELOPE DOUGLAS I bite my bottom lip, trying not to cry. I never cry in front of them.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS He's a reminder of what I want to feel everyday, whether it's with him or on my own. He's taught me ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to sa...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I have no life there if you're not in it. You're part of everything good I've ever done, Ryen. Pleas...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS The first thing that came to mind was an angel. Her hair flowing and shiny. Her legs dangling, long ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I can’t change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I’d go back and relive every day that I e...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS There were so many times when we were kids, growing up next door to each other, that I thought Jared...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS He was giving me the same look I got Wednesday night right before he kissed me, and I knew I hadn’...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You were the person that turned things right again. With you, I became courageous and free. It was l...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS What was worse than losing you was when you started to hurt me. Your words and actions made me hate ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS There was a time when I had all of his attention and loved it. As much as I wanted him to leave me a...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I thought that all the assholes drove German cars, but it turns out that pricks in Mustangs can stil...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I’m sorry,” he whispered. “I know I can make this up to you. Don’t hate me.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I was going to Homecoming with the one person in this school who made my skin crawl, I was getting a...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS This is how bullies are made.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS He put a hand to my face and guided my eyes to his. "We never lost that. As much as I tried, I could...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I didn’t want Ben. Plain and simple. I wasn’t going to be one of those silly girls in a love tri...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS This is how bullies are made. I’d just purposely made him feel unloved and unwanted. I’d told hi...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Jared gripped me tighter. "If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS If I ever lay my hands on you,” he said low and husky, “You’ll want it.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I held Madoc by the inside of his elbow and held Jerod closer to me by the bicep. While a month ago ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Isn’t it about time you fought back?
PENELOPE DOUGLAS He smiled to himself. “Because she made you.” And he wrapped his skinny arm around my neck and y...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS We never lost that. As much as I tried, I
could never erase you from my heart. That’s why I w...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I want to touch you.” His words were against my lips now. “I want to feel what’s mine. What’...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Tate, you’re mine, and I’m yours. Every day you’re
going to realize that more and more. W...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Acting like you don't care is not letting it go.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Are you mine?” I asked as I wiped my tears.
He kissed the corners of my mouth softly, and I f...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You were my tempest, my thunder cloud, my tree in the downpour. I loved all those things, and I love...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You've already made me cry countless times." I raised my middle finger to him slowly, and asked, "Do...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Yesterday lasts forever.
Tomorrow comes never.
Until you
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You always wait for tomorrow. But let me clue you in. Tomorrow was yesterday.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-pres...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I never wanted other women... I left so that I could be a man for you. So I could come back for you
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I'm your friend forever, and if that's all I get, then that's what I'm taking because only when you ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more than block her view. She needs a man standing...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS When you think about the women who aren't interested in my brother, it pretty much just leaves the l...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS The world isn’t always what’s right in front of you, you know? It’s below, it’s above, it’...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Tell me I’m crazy for thinking you’re holding back from me as much as I’m hiding you.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS But breaking was beautiful. It hurt, and it was an uphill climb back to sanity, but you came back st...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.
PENELOPE CRUZ Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then s...
PENELOPE CRUZ I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it ar...
PENELOPE LIVELY Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
PENELOPE LIVELY It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop ...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
PENELOPE KEITH However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a th...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
PENELOPE FITZGERALD Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts
PENELOPE SWEET I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adul...
PENELOPE CRUZ I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adul...
PENELOPE CRUZ I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell y...
PENELOPE CRUZ I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but f...
PENELOPE LIVELY I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me th...
PENELOPE CRUZ Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of r...
PENELOPE CRUZ Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belo...
PENELOPE MITCHELL We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so th...
PENELOPE KEITH Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get an...
PENELOPE LEACH She did not want to know what charm
he had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not wan...
PENELOPE MARZEC I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friend...
PENELOPE CRUZ T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has fe...
PENELOPE MITCHELL I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the ...
PENELOPE CRUZ It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beau...
PENELOPE WARD It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beau...
PENELOPE WARD I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who...
PENELOPE CRUZ I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the ...
PENELOPE LIVELY I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages do...
PENELOPE KEITH In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's eve...
PENELOPE CRUZ The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives a...
PENELOPE CRUZ I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe th...
PENELOPE KEITH It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happene...
PENELOPE SPHEERIS All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. ...
PENELOPE CRUZ You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.
PENELOPE WILTON I had a very curly perm in the '80s, thanks to the 'Way You Make Me Feel' Michael Jackso...
PENELOPE CRUZ The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time...
PENELOPE LIVELY In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America...
PENELOPE WILTON People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don'...
PENELOPE WILTON Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
PENELOPE CRUZ I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sen...
PENELOPE CRUZ It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
PENELOPE LIVELY I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change ove...
PENELOPE LIVELY The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to tr...
PENELOPE CRUZ There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because ...
PENELOPE CRUZ All history, of course, is the history of wars.
PENELOPE LIVELY However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a th...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
PENELOPE FITZGERALD In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, ...
PENELOPE CRUZ I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry b...
PENELOPE CRUZ Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms
PENELOPE LIVELY Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
PENELOPE KEITH All history, of course, is the history of wars
PENELOPE LIVELY My ambition is to be happy.
PENELOPE CRUZ The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lo...
PENELOPE CRUZ I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot ...
PENELOPE KEITH I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; thin...
PENELOPE LIVELY My overall fossil-hunting bias is heavily weighted to natural caves and fissures and overhangs,
PENELOPE BOSTON The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative wa...
PENELOPE LIVELY When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
PENELOPE CRUZ There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to ...
PENELOPE CRUZ I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.
PENELOPE CRUZ As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody...
PENELOPE CRUZ I had a horrible, horrible breakdown. It was just huge, like the worst period of my life, and it las...
PENELOPE CRUZ I like roles that people don't recognize me in.
PENELOPE CRUZ The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of...
PENELOPE CRUZ I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling parti...
PENELOPE CRUZ It felt like there is a dialogue between these two movies and these two women. They could be friends...
PENELOPE CRUZ He's completely different from the others, and he has a special dedication to his actors.
PENELOPE CRUZ We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
PENELOPE LIVELY I want to be the only one to show you everything and to be the one you'll always remember for the re...
PENELOPE WARD To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a thin...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagin...
PENELOPE SPHEERIS It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister...
PENELOPE CRUZ For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
PENELOPE SWEET Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.
PENELOPE GILLIATT I'm particularly excited about the sulfate results...because so much of the material we are looking ...
PENELOPE BOSTON I bought you a dinner in an elegant restaurant for our first one and took you for a plane ride for o...
PENELOPE WARD A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD I have this theory. If you think about almost any given moment in life, there is a Beatles song that...
PENELOPE WARD Red dress, strappy shoes? wow. She's really staring at you. - Shit. - And she seems to be crying.Les...
PENELOPE CRUZ Johnny [Depp] is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
PENELOPE CRUZ you cant trust somebody who thinks you're crazy
PENELOPE CRUZ he can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!
PENELOPE CRUZ I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the tr...
PENELOPE CRUZ In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much...
PENELOPE LIVELY But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a
new thought hit her. Perhaps love was...
PENELOPE MARZEC This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.
...
PENELOPE WARD I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little gi...
PENELOPE CRUZ It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.
PENELOPE WILTON The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and ...
PENELOPE CRUZ The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunl...
PENELOPE LIVELY Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes yo...
PENELOPE CRUZ All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able t...
PENELOPE LIVELY I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice ...
PENELOPE WILTON Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.
PENELOPE SMITH I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners lookin...
PENELOPE KEITH Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom...
PENELOPE LIVELY Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.
PENELOPE SPHEERIS I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to trave...
PENELOPE CRUZ I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scie...
PENELOPE CRUZ It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of blood...
PENELOPE LIVELY Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
PENELOPE FITZGERALD I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me f...
PENELOPE CRUZ I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.
PENELOPE WILTON Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn...
PENELOPE SPHEERIS Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.
PENELOPE WILTON My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside yo...
PENELOPE WILLIAMSON This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
PENELOPE SPHEERIS My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if the...
PENELOPE CRUZ I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.
PENELOPE CRUZ Sometimes, it takes losing everything to make you realize what you really need.
PENELOPE WARD If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. ...
PENELOPE WILLIAMSON Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.
PENELOPE WARD Sometimes the thing we fear more than anything, is really what our soul craves the most.
PENELOPE WARD We all have things we regret…decisions we make that we have to live with. You can’t dwell on the...
PENELOPE WARD Sometimes, those who put up the biggest shields are those who are protecting the biggest hearts.
PENELOPE WARD Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we ke...
PENELOPE LIVELY Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things tha...
PENELOPE LIVELY On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.
JULIA PENELOPE On Earth, the bottoms of these cracks can house organisms in a much more pleasant environment than t...
PENELOPE BOSTON If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television h...
PENELOPE ANN MILLER The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.
PENELOPE ANN MILLER Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and ...
PENELOPE ANN MILLER Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good an...
PENELOPE TRUNK (JOURNALIST) While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro...
TOMMY DOUGLAS I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o...
TOMMY DOUGLAS Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS God only knows what else is on the web about me.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had the...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm a huge poster collector.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, an...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very e...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS