“- Grandma Bossier: I shall make quite sure my granddaughter will never marry a man unworthy of her. Don't worry.
- Sybylla Melvyn: I don't. I'm not marrying anyone. I'm going to have a career!
- Grandma Bossier: A career? What in?
- Sybylla Melvyn: Oh, literature, music, art. Maybe, the opera. I've not made up my mind yet.”
Aileen Britton - Grandma Bossier
Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn

“The most important development for a girl ambitious for a screen career, is development of the mind. She should be interested in music. She should read fine books, learn to dance, and possibly study for one of the sciences.”
Jean Harlow

“Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.”
Johnny Depp

“I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.”
Jack Lemmon

“When I started out I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.”
Katharine Hepburn