Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

What I loved about ‘Summer’ was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.

I’d like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.