“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.”

“…but mortal man was helpless there…”

“Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.”

“And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…”

“Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt.”

“…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.”

“…he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self…”

“In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…”

“I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…”

“…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”

“…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.”

“We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.”

“…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.”

“Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.”

“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.”

“If every one agreed, we should never get on.”

“…notoriety is not real glory.”

“…Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something…”

“…the child's heart bled when it was broken.”

“…if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield.”

“…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.”

“…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.”

“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…”

“…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…”

“Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.”

“…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.”

“The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women.”

“By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper)…”

“…but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.”

“It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic.”

“…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.”

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good.

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.