I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

If you look at Jane Fonda's first tape, it's like, 'How to injure yourself to music.'

To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal.

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me.

'Jane the Virgin' is one of the most original shows that's been presented in the United States.

Sweet Jane' is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed.

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

My wife Jane left me for another man. Then I fell in love with a bloke. I have been gay ever since.

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

Anne Elliot was the one Jane Austen character I didn't fall in love with. She seemed sad and defeated.

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

When I filmed 'Live And Let Die' with Jane Seymour, I kept my socks on in bed, as it was such a cold set.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

Losing Jane was tragic and I thought I'd never get married again, or have more children, or would even ever want to.

I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'

A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.

We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

I remember when I was trying to do 'Metropolitan,' in breaks I would read a page of two of Jane Austen as a palate-cleanser.

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