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Rani Mukerji

Rani Mukerji (born March 21, 1978) is an Indian actress who works in Bollywood movies.

Quotes

 * I am here to act, entertain and make good films. I don't want to work hard for a film which does not even get released. I will cooperate with my director and help him make a good film. I get disappointed if my co-actors don't put in as much as I do. Today I am looking for banners and costars who have the same goal as me --- to work towards making a good film with dedication. I have made mistakes in my career, but that is just the learning process.

 * Both Shah Rukh and Aamir have taught me a lot. I used to be their fan. I had seen all their movies. Once I had even taken Aamir's autograph! Then all of a sudden, I was facing the camera with him! The way these two looked after me and saw me through my initial scenes is something I can never forget.

 * Shahrukh is someone I can aways count on. Same is the case for both Karan and Salman. And Aamir, who I have immense respect for. To be honest, I'm still a bit in awe of him!

 * Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings out the best in me, both personally and professionally. I think we have a Karmic connection and I hope he'll agree!
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display&thread=626.

 * Awards at each different stage have a special meaning and significance. They mean differently to everyone. When you get an award at the start of your career, it definitely is a stepping stone, and in the middle stages, awards become a source of inspiration, a source of happiness. It is a memento of something that is probably well deserved for the amount of effort put in. Filmfare Awards are something to be proud of. When one gets a Filmfare Award, people know an actor has arrived.

 * And if I was found to be good for two awards, it doesn't mean I should be given just one just to make the awards look more democratic.

 * I don't party, I don't get drunk and I don't have affairs. So all my passion goes into my work.

 * Getting up at odd hours to catch flights. I hate the long hours of waiting. There are times when one is continuously travelling, from one city to another, hopping from one studio to another or changing from one costume to another. It is annoying, but after a point, one learns to be immune to one’s surroundings.

 * Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.

 * after the release of Black:
 * Black changed my life. After interacting with the challenged, I learnt how not to complain. Even with a handicap, it is still possible to achieve your dreams. With Black I got a chance to meet a whole new world of people. I did not even know they existed till Sanjay told me about them.

 * I have become cautious. There is no fixed formula. Today audience's sensibilities are sharp. You can't feed them rubbish. They want to watch good films. The script has to be appealing. Even if it is larger than life, it has to be realistic. Audiences have to identify with what you are showing.

 * I have been into Odissi for over a decade now. I started around the time I was in standard X. I started dancing with Meenakshi Seshadri. My guru Pandit Ravindra Attibuthi has also taught Meenakshi and Hema Malini.

 * I don't let gossip about my alleged affairs with Abhishek (Bachchan) or Govinda bother me anymore. People have even married me off to Karan Johar! The rumors about Govinda did make me furious. I felt sorry for Sunitaji. As far as Abhishek goes, I’m not dating him. I have no time for dates.

 * I love daal chawal. I am not a restaurant person. I enjoy home food a lot.

 * I compete with myself.

 * [On her fallout with Abhishek Bachchan] The truth is if someone chooses not to invite you to their wedding you realize where you stand with that person. You may be deluded and think you are friends but maybe that friendship was only extended as co-stars on the sets. It doesn't matter. It became very clear to me that we were only co-stars not friends.

 * I feel beautiful in love. There is a lot of love for you in the beholder's eye. That makes you feel very happy.
 * http://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/interviews/rani-mukerji-talks-about-her-equation-aishwarya-abhishek-kajol-aamir.

 * Salman Khan is probably one of the most good looking people we have in our industry.
 * http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3mgQ3v1Jyw

The Actress' Take On Films

 * Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak: I was in school when I fell in love with the Aamir-Juhi pair. It was my first experience of love on-screen.

 * I love Titanic because the love in the movie was pure, real, passionate and unconditional... the way the love story culminated in catastrophe was phenomenal. I love DDLJ and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai for being so over the top and yet so believable for us youngsters... I love Black for being such a sublime love story between and a teacher and his student. It was a love much beyond the ordinary.

 * When Karan wanted my voice to be dubbed for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I really thought that it was a bad idea, but slowly I worked to improve my diction, and now I'm quite comfortable with it.

 * The kiss with Kamal Haasan [in Hey! Ram] was mechanical. He was constantly checking the right angle. Where was the passion?

 * I am in the profession of acting and so to suit the character I sometimes have to indulge in kissing and provocative scenes. I have never felt comfortable shooting for kissing sequences. Although, kissing scenes like the ones in Yuva with Abhishek Bachchan and in Hum Tum with Saif were shot in an aesthetic manner. I am still pretty much uncomfortable performing such scenes.

 * Yes. Women characters are once again assuming significance in films. Karan Johar, Sanjay Bhansali and Yash uncle conceive wonderful women characters. In the ’50s and ’60s, Bimal Roy and Guru Duttji wrote beautiful roles for heroines. You couldn’t take your eyes off a close-up of Waheedaji, Nargisji, Nutanji or Meenaji. Times are changing again. The Bhansali-shot close-ups of Ash and Madhuri in Devdas were awesome.

 * For me, a director is more important than a big banner. A great director can do wonders. Of course, banners do matter because, ultimately, after all the hard work you put it, the film must release. This will happen only if you work with a good banner or a producer who markets your film well, gives the director whatever he wants, and releases the film.

 * I’m happy Black is a hit. It marks my hat-trick after Hum Tum and Veer-Zaara.

 * It would be very unfair to compare "Black" with any other film. I can't do a role of a handicapped person. It'd look like a carryover of "Black". Every film is a new experience for me. I respect my work too much to act superior about other films. "Black" is a kind of film that comes once in a lifetime. Even Sanjay [Leela Bhansali] can't make it again.

 * on her character in The Rising (2005).
 * See, my role started as a cameo. I was supposed to play the widow (Jwala's character) - yes, the one Aishwarya Rai was supposed to play. Now, Amisha Patel has been signed for the role since I opted for a different character in the movie when offered to me. When I read the script, I fell in love with the small role of the prostitute. There were two or three very good scenes. The script underwent a change, and I got more space than before. But it's still a cameo - nothing like what Smita Patil did with Ketan Mehta in Mirch Masala, though I wish had.
 * Though I play a tawaif, I don't have a central role like Meena Kumari in Pakeezah or Rekha in Umrao Jaan. Mangal Pandey is completely about the title character.
 * Yes, and I was really looking forward that. I got a chance not only to do a mujra but also to be choreographed by Saroj Khan.

 * On the Ash Replacement Controversy in Chalte Chalte (2003).
 * As a matter of fact, and I have said this before, I was the original choice for this role. Shah Rukh spoke to me about the film during Asoka. I didn’t have dates, so Ash replaced me. When she couldn’t do the film for whatever reason, Shah Rukh asked me to do it. I love Aamir and Shah Rukh in a different way. When Shah Rukh asks, I can’t say no.

Rani On Celebrities

 * On the Khans
 * Aamir Khan is an intelligent actor with an eye for detail. He places the film above every individual or ego. Shah Rukh Khan is an extremely focused actor. His energy is infectious and his attachment with people he works with, admirable. In my early films with him when I was still young I used to feel distracted and he would hit me to make me concentrate. Salman Khan of course is the true-blue superstar. He is a combination of child and a man. He is extremely good-looking and extremely popular. Everyone just loves to love him.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display&thread=404.
 * The Khans are lucky for me. I owe a lot to them. Today if Shah Rukh asks me to do even a walk-on shot in one scene for his film, I’ll do it for him. And in a weird sense I call Aamir my Guru. I have learnt so much from his personal and professional life, that in many ways I idolise the way he conducts himself, and follow his footsteps. When I worked with him in ‘The Rising’, it felt like giving a shot with my best friend. Even my pairing with Saif has been so refreshing that it worked magically lucky for us - it should work again in Tara Rum Pum.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display&thread
 * They are my seniors. All of us have become close buddies. I look up to all of them, they are like my back-slapping pals. They have been my inspiration. I always take all the good suggestions given by them. For better performance I believe a process to give and take enriches the scene and thus enhances the state of a film. However, there is room for discussion and with friendship and great rapport things turn out to be the best. Having worked with them has only increased my love and respect for the Khans. Working with them makes it easy for me to give my best. It’s mutual admiration now.
 * http://www.emirates247.com/bollywood/take-one/rani-mukerji-never-looked-aamir-in-the-eye-2012-11-24-1.484488.

 * On Aamir Khan:
 * He was my hero in Ghulam. After that there was a long gap until Mangal Pandey. In between he did want me for Lagaan. Today, we're very close friends. The equation is different. I remembered how he used to show me to do scenes. He still tells me how to do my scenes.
 * I admit I did Mangal Pandey for Aamir. I can never say no to Aamir or Shahrukh.
 * I admit I did Mangal Pandey for Aamir. I can never say no to Aamir or Shahrukh.

 * On Shahrukh Khan:
 * He treats me like a child, tells me how to face the camera. He constantly motivates me to give my best. His dedication and focus have shown me how to conduct my own career.
 * It’s always a delight working with Shah Rukh. I started my career with him and from then till today…there’s been no change in him. I absolutely love him and have great respect for him, as a person and as an actor. He guides me, even scolds me at times when I have to get the shot right, above all…he inspires me to give in my best.

 * On Salman Khan
 * Salman is absolutely adorable. I really love him as he is always himself. I only laugh when I am with him, he is so entertaining. He is a rockstar. When he comes on screen, not only the common man but we actors also clap and whistle for him and say, ‘Star aa gaya’. He is so good looking. When he passes by, you actually stop to turn and look at him. When I saw the promos of Dabangg, I called him and both of us went completely mad. He is a cult figure. Just as the South has Rajinikanth, we have Salman!
 * http://www.screenindia.com/news/rani-mukerji-queen-of-hearts/799321/
 * Salman was so sweet. He helps you whenever you're in trouble, whether thats personally or professionally. He'll help you with your scenes in the film, with your dialogs and also give friendly advice. I have worked with him in a few films and it's always been great. I'm looking forward to working with him again!
 * [on the Vivek and Salman row] This really doesn't have much to do with me so I can hardly comment on it. But from my side I can say that Salman was and always will be a sweet co star and friend of mine and I don't believe in the accusations made against him. However, you have to hand it to him for handling the situation so well. Vivek and I were co stars in Saathiya and I guess our chemistry worked but personally I'm not close to him. He's my brothers friend from school, not mine.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=interviews&thread=412&page=1.
 * I absolutely enjoy working with Salman because I completely agree with the fact that he is the original rockstar. Nobody else is a rockstar quite like him and there is simply nobody else like him. He’s one of the most amazing actors we’ve got because the way he switches on and switches off with the camera is incredible. He becomes someone else when the camera is on and is somebody else when it’s off. He could be joking, playing around and saying something out of this planet before a shot and suddenly, with the lights, he’s all there; and that’s very difficult for an actor. Salman is a great actor because he can just transform into anybody. Full marks to him. My rapport with him, from the first day has been super. Maybe because we’re both alike - truthful, honest - so he and we connect.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display&thread=407.

 * On Saif Ali Khan:
 * He's such a focused and committed actor!
 * It's so wonderful working with him. What fun we had! Saif and I have grown together as actors. Hum Tum was a breakthrough film for both of us. It got me my first best actress award. The film bonded us. He has come a long way from Hum Tum to Ta Ra Rum Pum.
 * He's a fantastic actor because he is so unpredictable. I really saw a gradual change in him from Hum Tum to Ta Ra Rum Pum when I worked with him now. He's growing everyday as an actor. He's becoming completely flawless.
 * Saif is a brilliant actor, undoubtedly. He is one of my favorites and I enjoy watching him on screen. Both of us agree we have great chemistry onscreen that stems from our off screen rapport. We trust each other as actors. While shooting we never tried to outdo each other. The other day we were watching the preview if our film and, at the end, we both agreed that we look so hot together.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=print&thread=396.
 * Saif is a brilliant actor, undoubtedly. He is one of my favorites and I enjoy watching him on screen. Both of us agree we have great chemistry onscreen that stems from our off screen rapport. We trust each other as actors. While shooting we never tried to outdo each other. The other day we were watching the preview if our film and, at the end, we both agreed that we look so hot together.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=print&thread=396.

 * On Madhuri Dixit:
 * I remember Beta making a huge impact on me. I had gone completely mad about Madhuri after seeing the movie.
 * I was one of the fortunate ones to go for her wedding. And I was deeply shattered. But I was of course happy for her also. For all us fans, you know, when Madhuri used to do a film, it used to make a difference for all of us. Because there’s nobody like Madhuri, she’s like the legend.

 * On Hema Malini:
 * I think she’s a goddess. I completely adore her as a human being. For me, just being with her on the sets of Babul was so enriching; because I had her and all seniors - Amitji, Ravi uncle - all sitting and chatting about their heydays and I used to laugh. They are so rich in history and more than that they’re such wonderful human beings. I really cherish the moments when I used to sit with Hemaji and chat normally about life, the way she used to bless me, tell me about her experiences of being the No. 1 star of her times, awesome. Her smile is so warm that when she enters any room with it, she has everyone falling at her feet. She is truly the stuff of dreams and legends.

 * On Amitabh Bachchan:
 * My relationship with Amit uncle - personally and professionally - is very strong because we’re are extremely fond of each other. I completely adore him, I look upon him as an idol and I really respect him because of the person that he is, the kind of actor he is. He’s been my favourite actor since ages. But the kind of chemistry, the rapport I started sharing with him is as if I’ve been working with him forever. It’s been that great and the way we connect onscreen is unbelievable. So everything, from Black to Babul, that we’ve done, has been extremely wonderful and a really nice experience.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display&thread=407.

 * On Abhishek Bachchan:
 * The thing about me and Abhishek is that we are such close pals that our chemistry works on the big screen. That’s why after Bunty Aur Babli, Karan Johar has signed us both in a film together.

 * On Hrithik Roshan:
 * We get along really well. Besides having a similar pattern of working, it's important to establish a comfort level between co actors. Mujhse Dosti Karoge was one big picnic. Since Hrithik and I were comfortable with each other I would tell him whether a particular scene was shot well or not. We are more friends then co stars. I would tell him to redo a scene if I thought it was not good or if there was something missing. Hrithik takes my suggestions seriously.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=print&thread=396.

 * On Preity Zinta:
 * Preity is a lovely co-star. All our films together have worked. She keeps joking that she'll put me in her wedding picture to ensure her marriage remains a superhit.

 * On John Abraham
 * John is very sweet. He always mentions me in all his interviews; saying that he’s really fond of me. He says that he thinks of me as one of his favourite actors- its very nice. I’ve seen John’s growth from his first film to Baabul and beyond. I think he’s grown as an actor and of course he has become one of the most sought after stars today. I see girl fans who’re crazy about him. I feel good about that and I always believe that good people get good things in life - John is one of them Rani quotes.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display&thread=407.

 * On Sanjay Leela Bhansali:
 * Bhansali is a very sensitive director. The way he approaches every aspect of filmmaking is awe-inspiring. 'Black' is his baby. It's certainly not an easy subject to direct and he has shown his class by giving the film such a sensitive treatment.

The Directors' Notes On Rani

 * Kunal Kohli, director Hum Tum:
 * You wouldn't even realise the power in the scene you have written till you see her perform it on-screen.

 * Yash Chopra, director Veer-Zaara:
 * The ease with which she emotes is amazing. Her understanding of the character and its execution is the key.

 * Sanjay Leela Bhansali, director Black:
 * Look at her track record. In two years she has gone way beyond all competition...Hum Tum, Veer-Zaara and now Black, three hits in a row! The lady is versatile in the most wonderful manner.
 * If I had to make Black a hundred times,it would be with Rani each time.I haven't seen such an honest,spirited and spontaneous performance in ages.
 * http://ranimukherjee.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=personalquotes&action=print&thread=940.
 * Rani is my favouritest actress. She is the Queen. And she's also my best friend.
 * http://www.asianoutlook.com/aoforum/showthread.php?t=12349&page=3.
 * http://www.asianoutlook.com/aoforum/showthread.php?t=12349&page=3.

 * Karan Johar, director Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna:
 * Rani Mukerji is someone I appreciate for various reasons. I love Rani as a person and a performer. Her "Black" is a landmark performance. I don't think she can ever do it again which is so unfortunate.
 * She is an amazing talent who has become one of our finest actresses. I feel proud to have been part of the process.
 * All these years she has been in touch with me nearly every day without expecting anything in return. She's like my kid sister. I feel that much more for her because her love for me is unconditional. That eclipses her other equally important ability as an actor. Her strengths as human being will always be more important to me. Today she's a rock-solid professional.
 * I’ve just gone through a life-changing experience. It’s called Black… Mr Bachchan’s is the best performance I’ve seen by a male actor. And Rani? My God! When I remember how I’d scream instructions at her during Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I wonder what I was doing! Rani has surpassed not just her contemporaries but almost everything done by actresses in our cinema in the last 50 years.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/ranimukerjiworld/interviewsquotes.htm
 * I’ve just gone through a life-changing experience. It’s called Black… Mr Bachchan’s is the best performance I’ve seen by a male actor. And Rani? My God! When I remember how I’d scream instructions at her during Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I wonder what I was doing! Rani has surpassed not just her contemporaries but almost everything done by actresses in our cinema in the last 50 years.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/ranimukerjiworld/interviewsquotes.htm

Stars Talk About Rani

 * Aamir Khan, co-star Ghulam:
 * If a star comes closest to holding the sway that Madhuri Dixit or Kajol did, it's Rani. She pays attention to her work, has matured and become experienced with time.
 * Rani is one of my closest friends, we can talk about anything.
 * She has very expressive eyes through which she conveys a lot. She has a great understanding of the scene, is able to catch the right key.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani-mukerji/raniquotes.htm.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani-mukerji/raniquotes.htm.

 * Salman Khan, actor:
 * I have known Rani for a long time. She is a fantastic actress. She is one of the amazing girls in the industry.
 * She knows who she is and what she can do. After a long time Bollywood has got an actress like Rani. She is naughty, masti khor and a wonderful friend. She has taken acting as her career and given her 100%. Somehow Rani has acting in her genes.
 * http://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/discussion/stars-speak-rani-birthday-girl
 * [Speaking about Rani on Big Boss Season 4] She is one of the best actresses we have in the country... And an amazing dancer... Look at that smile! Love you, Rani.
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8mz1wQFmcA
 * I have worked with Rani in three films. She wasn’t taken seriously, initially. But now her talent is there for all to see. She is the only actress who has incredible comic timing. Even though she sported ugly glasses and had an awkward gait in Black, her performance was simply amazing. She doesn’t stoop to manipulation or backbiting. Now I can confidently say, she is here to stay.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/ranimukerjiworld/interviewsquotes.htm
 * [When asked who the best actresses of the current crop were]There's Rani, then there's Preity, Aishwarya and Priyanka are very good... And then the new girls like Lara and Katrina. [When asked who was the best] As an actor? Rani Mukerji.
 * 10. http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm.

 * Shahrukh Khan, co-star Chalte Chalte:
 * I don’t think I would've been an actor without Kajol being a part of my films and my life. And I don’t think I would continue acting if Rani wasn’t a part of films either. I think perhaps in seventeen years they sum up my career as the most beautiful career.
 * [When speaking to Rani in a show] I've known you since the time you started, I'm very fond of you...I love you! We've done different kinds of roles together. Chalte Chalte I think was very interesting, KKHH was interesting because you had just started out...It's wonderful to see you evolve as an actor over the years and personally I do believe that Rani Mukerji is the best actress in the country in the last 16 years.
 * Rani has looked her career best in Paheli. For myself, Aziz and Juhi; Rani is the only leading lady for our production house. She is the best actress we have had in I'd say the past 16 years!
 * Very few people know this. Now that she's successful, I can take credit for it. I spotted Rani in the promo of her first film and recommended her to Karan for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. I insisted that he at least meet Rani and when he did, he wasn't impressed. He wanted someone taller and Western looking. After much deliberation, he decided to try her out. They straightened her hair, did her make up and gave her a mini-skirt for the KMG song. That's where it all started. When I first saw her dancing, I realised she's a better dancer than me. She looked fantastic when she walks in with that guitar in the song!
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm
 * Right from the start, director Aziz Mirza wanted Rani. She heard a full narration of the script before me. But she was doing what she thought was a similar film [Saathiya]. Though I had worked with her in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, I had never done a full-fledged role with her. She began her career with me in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. She was supposed to do Dil Se with me as well. Chalte Chalte has given her a role worthy of her talent.
 * Rani Mukerji has the most beautiful eyes in the world.

 * Farah Khan, choreographer/director:
 * [When asked who the best actress is] Rani Mukerji. Absoloutely. Rani is number one at everything.
 * Rani is a superb dancer.
 * Rani is a dear friend.
 * http://ranimukherji.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display.

 * Rekha, actress:
 * I love that girl, she has a very attractive face and great style!
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani-mukerji/raniquotes.htm.

 * Madhuri Dixit:
 * I think she is a very good actress. I have always liked her and I envy her in a way because my dad is a big fan of hers.
 * Guests I would want over for lunch… Shahrukh, because he’s a very sweet guest and will appreciate your efforts even if the food doesn’t taste great. And Rani because we really get along well. I’m sure she will cook half the lunch and it will taste fantastic!
 * Guests I would want over for lunch… Shahrukh, because he’s a very sweet guest and will appreciate your efforts even if the food doesn’t taste great. And Rani because we really get along well. I’m sure she will cook half the lunch and it will taste fantastic!

 * Sridevi, actress
 * She's a sweetheart. She's my all time favourite. She's a great actress. I loved her in No One Killed Jessica.
 * http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=m-feedu&v=4Y1V8xZUGvY

 * Kajol, actress:
 * I thought she (Rani) was very very good in the film (KANK).
 * It’s really nothing like that. It’s more like she’s Tanisha’s age. You know, she’s basically in another, for me, it’s like another generation. For me, she’s like a younger sister.
 * I’m not surprised and I’m not shocked. And yes, I am very happy that she’s achieved what she’s achieved. I really think that she’s a fantastic actress.

 * Saif Ali Khan, co-star Hum Tum:
 * Rani is extremely photogenic.
 * My favourite actresses of all time are (named 2 Hollywood actresses) and Rani Mukerji.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/ranimukerjiworld/interviewsquotes.htm
 * My favourite costars are Kajol and now Rani Mukerji. They're very natural actresses and act spontaneously."
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm
 * Rani is a great co-star, love working with her I think our chemistry is special, and Hum Tum was a great film and now with Kunal Kohli now again we have just done another movie just now so I am really looking forward to that she is a great actor.
 * Rani is a fantastic actor. Aditya Chopra, the producer, always says that we work well together because she tends to sort of ground me and I make her a little more Westernised. I think we do share an interesting chemistry on screen. I have a lot of respect for her. Out of most people that I have met in the industry she is very real, very down to earth and very family-oriented and a strong valued girl.
 * I agree I have great screen chemistry with Rani. I was watching ‘Hum Tum’ the other day and I just think it’s a magical movie in parts. I think she’s a phenomenal actor and she brings something really special to the screen, for which I respect her a lot. It is competitive for me to be working with her because I actually want to be better than her because she is so very good.
 * She is I think the best actress I have worked with, and there's something about her aura that really matches mine and makes us look great together onscreen. Working with such a great co-actor pushes you to act even better because you want to do better then them.
 * http://www.asianoutlook.com/aoforum/showthread.php?t=12349.

 * Abhishek Bachchan, co-star Yuva:
 * Rani is a very, very good friend, and by far one of the best actors we have today. She doesn’t need any help. She makes anybody she works with look good. And that’s precisely what happened in Yuva.
 * I love working with Rani. She's one of my favourite co-stars. She understands me the most as an actor
 * Well, Rani Mukerji is one of my best friends. Rani's and my chemistry work good together.
 * Rani is the best co star I've ever worked with. She is beautiful and a brilliant actor.
 * http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-19/news-interviews/29444150_1_abhi-ash-abhishek-bachchan-hum-jee-jaan-se.
 * Rani is the best co star I've ever worked with. She is beautiful and a brilliant actor.
 * http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-19/news-interviews/29444150_1_abhi-ash-abhishek-bachchan-hum-jee-jaan-se.

 * Aishwarya Rai, actress:
 * She is also a very very warm girl, very very friendly, very easy-going.

 * Sushmita Sen, co-star Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai:
 * Rani was fabulous in Saathiya, you can't imagine anyone else but her in the role.

 * Amitabh Bachchan, co-star KANK:
 * We've been cast in very unusual roles in Black. And then in KANK we were a very different kind of father-in-law and daughter-in-law. And now we play another very different and unusual father-in-law and daughter-in-law in Baabul. I guess we're lucky to have our acting talents being tested in such unusual ways. I'm very fortunate to get such unusual opportunities. Rani is a terrific co-star and it’s a pleasure to work with her. All of us— Jaya, Abhishek and I are very fond of her.
 * She's a very caring girl and a thorough professional on camera.
 * She's a very caring person. She's my favourite.
 * http://ranimukherjee.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=personalquotes&action=print&thread=940.

 * Jaya Bachchan:
 * I think Kajol is a natural. And I think Rani is a very well-crafted actress. She knows her craft very well.

 * Vidya Balan, actress:
 * She is one of the best actors India has seen in recent times!
 * Rani is my favourite actress amongst my immediate seniors. We were meant to work a couple of times earlier but that didn’t happen, so I was excited about this film. I wouldn’t claim that we are best friends but there is a genuine fondness between us!
 * http://rmliworld.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/rani-mukherjee-di-mata-teman-teman/

 * Kareena Kapoor, actress:
 * Rani and me go back a long way. She is actually someone I really, really love.
 * http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5Qx6S2dUHko
 * I think, firstly, she, like, made the most amazing pair with Saif. There was such a dearth in the industry when she was not working in between. Like whenever I see Hum Tum - whenever Saif sees a film, a love story, he always says, "My God. Rani Mukerji." She is such a fantastic actress. She is a true talent and I love her. Besides, personally also, I think she's fantastic. I love talking to her. We always share a few laughs whenever we meet. So I really, really do, honestly, love Rani.
 * http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qx6S2dUHko.

 * Priyanka Chopra, actress:
 * Rani is a fantastic person. We got along famously during the world tour, when we performed together. She is also not a party animal and very much a family person like me. Rani is a wonderful actor and I admire her even more after watching her performance in Black.

 * Bipasha Basu, actress:
 * And the fact is that John and I are both die-hard Rani Mukerji fans. She’s the most fantastic actress around. And for heaven's sake it has nothing to do with the fact that we’re Bengali.
 * Some will like me, some won’t. For every Amisha Patel, there’s a Rani Mukerji. I’d rather focus on Rani.

 * Preity Zinta, co-star Chori Chori Chupke Chupke:
 * I think Rani is a very good actor. I have always liked her performances. I have always liked the way she works. And it's really nice because when there are good actors, you obviously want to do better and if there is quality, then it gives you a better chance to do things better. So I think yes, her work affects me in a very positive way. Because in some way out of all the actors I've worked with, out of my generation of actors, my contemporaries, I think she is the best.
 * Rani won the award for best actress and I was happy for her. She is a wonderful actress and deserved to win. Rani & I work well together in films. We are not good good friends but we are friends. Rani is a great actress & she has a number of good films coming up.All I can say is that Rani is very friendly to me when I see her; in fact she's very sweet to me.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm
 * She's my good luck charm. Every film we did together was a big hit. I am sure 'Kabhi Alvidaa Na Kehna' would also be a success.
 * http://www.asianoutlook.com/aoforum/showthread.php?t=12349.

 * Anil Kapoor, actor
 * Hi, Rani. It was wonderful working with you but more than that, it has been wonderful knowing you as a person. What I admire about you, and what really touches me, is the way you look after your mother and father. That shows the kind of person you are. God will always give you great success.
 * http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=-uSGE1tFJRk.

 * Akshay Kumar, actor
 * Today I am hungry for good roles, the only other performer I see with that same hunger is Rani Mukerji. She is trying all sorts of great roles out there.
 * http://rani_world.m.webs.com/site/mobile?dm_path=%2Fcelebquotesonrani.htm&fw_sig_permissions=none&fw_sig=4d86f3358d2d48bcecbaa5cbc75ff832&fw_sig_access_token=b1341772f1482d9e6d76f739c95e2c2c4d373408&fw_sig_social=1&fw_sig_time=1345773655625&fw_sig_session_key=13de860ef35f47187c2f4c9acbe95379efb0dc6c6851e301949cd027ddfb364e-16741239&fw_sig_url=http://rani_world.webs.com/&fw_sig_permission_level=0&fw_sig_api_key=522b0eedffc137c934fc7268582d53a1&fw_sig_premium=0&fw_sig_tier=0&fw_sig_is_admin=0&fw_sig_site=16741239&fb_sig_network=fw#3311.

 * John Abraham, co-star Baabul:
 * She's my most favourite actress. She is wonderful, beautiful and ethereal on screen. Rani has an earthiness and a voice that can never be dublicated. Whenever I see her walk on to the stage to collect her Best Actress trophy, I know she fully deserves it.
 * I'm a Rani fan. So, I obviously find Rani everything that is nice and everything that is sexy.
 * Rani's got a very earthy kind of sex appeal.
 * Rani Mukherjee is my most favourite actress. I’m working with her in Baabul. She is very bubbly and fun loving between shots. In an intense scene when she looks you into your eyes and cries, you really understand what she’s conveying to you. She has beautiful eyes. Rani has helped me make an honest effort to perform my best. She’s a very nice person and that’s what I really like about her.
 * http://rmliworld.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/rani-mukherjee-di-mata-teman-teman/

 * Arjun Rampal, actor:
 * Rani Mukerji, fantastic actress, seen it all, done it all.
 * I think Rani is beautiful.

 * Ranveer Singh, actor
 * I'd like to work with Rani Mukerji because she is a great actress and I can learn a lot from her.

 * Anushka Sharma, actress
 * I love Rani Mukerji for the way she has handled her career. ‘Saathiya’ and ‘Yuva’ are my favourite movies.
 * Rani is my most favourite actress. She is irreplaceable. She is one of the best actresses to have ever graced Indian cinema.

 * Parineeti Chopra, actress
 * I am inspired by Rani Mukerji. She is the most talented actress in Indian cinema right now. Rani is unique on screen and oozes spontaneity in all the roles she plays.
 * Rani mukerji is my most favourite actress. I just love her.
 * http://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/discussion/rani-most-talented-actress-indian-cinema-right-now-parineeti
 * I want to do each and every Rani Mukherji film. Let's rewind 15 years and I want to do that film. I love her, and I have told her that a thousand times.
 * http://wonderwoman.intoday.in/story/parineeti-chopra-harpers-bazaar-poised-for-success/1/100959.html

 * Sonam Kapoor, actress
 * I think Rani Mukerji is soon going to be a legend. She is one of the very few spontaneous actresses and above all a very good human being. I’ve learnt a lot from her. She respects everybody and treats the entire crew equally. She is very self confident and she is a ‘phataka’.
 * Rani Mukerji is brilliant, she's my favourite actor. It is a pleasure and a great learning experience to watch her act, and she is one of my great friends and has been a huge pillar of strength for the last 8-9 years, to my family and me.
 * From Rani, I learnt patience. How to be always on time, to be extremely professional, to be spontaneous as well as measured. And to respect other actors, which she does. She gives a lot of respect to the other person. And Rani is my favourite actor and I’m really biased, I love her. She’s the best.
 * http://www.asianoutlook.com/aoforum/showthread.php?t=12349&page=3.
 * Well, besides being a family friend, Rani is one of my favourite actors and she was most amazing on the sets of Black, where I assisted Mr Bhansali. It was very touching that she knew all the assistants by name. When we would all sit down for lunch, she'd recount the most funny anecdotes. We'd just crack up all the time. But I actually realised what a genuine person she was when there was a continuity jerk with one of the assistants... It was on a close-up of Mr Bachchan and he's too senior for a mess up to happen. Rani realised what was happening and she quickly took the blame, saying it wasn't the assistant's fault but hers. That was such a learning experience for me.
 * http://www.asianoutlook.com/aoforum/showthread.php?t=12349&page=3.

 * Deepika Padukone, actress
 * My favourite actresses are Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta and Sushmita Sen.

 * Ranbir Kapoor, actor
 * I worked with Miss Rani Mukerji. God, it was such a brillant experience because she is such an wonderful actress, you know you learn so much just by observing her, not only just while the shoot is going on but while she is sitting down. The focus, dedication and the passion she has for her film its inspiring, you know, because Rani Mukerji is such a huge star and still she has so much more passion then me. You know it's my first film, just seeing her on the film set and seeing her act and acting with her... No i was not intimidated, I wouldn't say that, but I would say she made everything easy for me. Like they say acting is all about response and reacting to a person so every shoot was different. She would do one shoot and then do another shoot so I always had to be on guard and never let my guard down, not get thrown back by the improvisation she has done, so I think that also taught me a lot, made me a better actor if I may say so and I would just like to thank her for being part of my first film and teaching me so much.

 * Neetu Singh, actress
 * [When asked which actress reminds her most of herself] Should I give myself a compliment? Rani Mukerji!
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwHVxyUTZg8.

 * Shabana Azmi, actress:
 * Rani Mukerji is brilliant. She rendered me speechless in Black.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm.

 * Gauri Khan, Shahrukh Khan's wife
 * Aamir Khan and Rani Mukerji are my favourites. I've loved Shah Rukh most in Chalte Chalte.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm.

 * Vaibhavi Merchant, choreographer
 * Rani is pure sunshine! She isn’t a fake at all, what you see is what you get and she never minces words – a phataka! She’s a complete woman – a brilliant actor, an ideal daughter and a fabulous friend.

 * Hrithik Roshan, actor:
 * It was a pleasure working with Rani. She is very professional, very friendly and easygoing. She leaves all negativity behind when she comes on the sets. And she's a great friend. Rani and I make a very earthy pair. We don't look unbelievably glamorous on screen. We look like a real couple."
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm.

 * Bobby Deol, actor
 * I have fought with Rani and I have fought with Preity at some point or the other but we have become better friends after these fights.
 * http://celebrity.psyphil.com/bobby-deol-biography-interesting-facts-movies/
 * She is one of my favourite costars. I am not saying it for the heck of it, she really is a very nice person.
 * http://ranimukherjee.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=personalquotes&action=print&thread=940.

 * Govinda, actor
 * No one can say for sure who is the number one actress, because talent abounds in Bollywood. But I would not hesitate to say that Rani is extremely talented and a great actress.
 * Rani is a nice girl. Nobody has ever said anything bad about her. She comes from a dignified family and I respect her and her family.

 * Jay Sean, singer
 * My biggest Celeb crush? Rani Mukerji! She's so sexy!
 * http://ranimukherjee.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=personalquotes&action=print&thread=940.

 * Suniel Shetty, actor
 * Rani is fantastic. She has a dazzling smile and will go far!
 * dm_path=%2Fcelebquotesonrani.htm&fw_sig_permissions=none&fw_sig=4d86f3358d2d48bcecbaa5cbc75ff832&fw_sig_access_token=b1341772f1482d9e6d76f739c95e2c2c4d373408&fw_sig_social=1&fw_sig_time=1345773655625&fw_sig_session_key=13de860ef35f47187c2f4c9acbe95379efb0dc6c6851e301949cd027ddfb364e-16741239&fw_sig_url=http://rani_world.webs.com/&fw_sig_permission_level=0&fw_sig_api_key=522b0eedffc137c934fc7268582d53a1&fw_sig_premium=0&fw_sig_tier=0&fw_sig_is_admin=0&fw_sig_site=16741239&fb_sig_network=fw#3311.

 * Arbaaz Khan, actor, director, producer
 * The moment you meet Rani, almost instantly you fall in love with her. She's a wonderful person, a vibrant smile, her lovely eyes... She's a wonderful person to be with. On the sets she makes everybody happy... She's unbelievable, really. Everyone that Rani has worked with, she has touched them some way in their hearts. Every producer, actor would want to work with her. As a friend and as a professional, she's unbelivable. And I mean that.

 * Shahid Kapoor, actor
 * What more could I ask for? Featuring in the same frame as her was a high. She is a great dancer and it is a compliment to match steps with her. I got to learn a lot from her long experience in the industry. She is a fantastic actress and an amazing person.
 * Rani is a very good actress.
 * I couldn't believe i was working with her.
 * Rani is a great dancer and people have forgotten that it has been a while since she has done an out-and-out dance number. The last time I saw Rani match up with any actor was with Govinda. There have been times when I have calmed myself down a little to balance it out with my co-actor, but Dil Bole Hadippa was the first time when I thought that I had to pull my socks up as Rani was going for the kill.
 * http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2009/09/04/bollywood-taking-on-the-hotties-in-tinseltown-116451-24610115/

 * Anupam Kher, actor:
 * First of all, she is an extremely talented actress. Rani has proved herself with Black. Without a doubt, she is a major pull at the box office. Also, she is a warm and straight forward individual. She would never indulge in petty politics. The best part about her is that she keeps everyone smiling and wants the world to be happy.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm.

 * Vivek Oberoi, actor:
 * Everyone loves her. She has a very disarming smile. She makes you feel wanted. We had a special relationship. What I like about her are her eyes and her warmth. They are the windows to her soul. She connects with people emotionally in real life. You can make out when you see her bonding with her family. That honesty comes through on screen. During the shooting for Saathiya her performance was so honest that I completely believed her and that helped me as an actor.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani_world/celebquotesonrani.htm.

 * Emraan Hashmi, actor:
 * Rani Mukerji is my favourite actress, I'd love to work with her.
 * http://www.freewebs.com/rani-mukerji/raniquotes.htm.

 * Jaquline Fernanadez, actress
 * I love Rani's eyes. I think she has the most expressive eyes in Bollywood.
 * http://www.oneshotoneplace.com/2012/03/23/aamir-khan-salman-khan-karan-johar-parineeti-chopra-shah-rukh-khan-sonam-kapoor-abhishek-bachchan-madhuri-dixit-priyanka-chopra-john-abraham-shahid-kapoor-anushka-sharma-jacqueline-fernand/

 * Konkona sen Sharma, actress
 * It was superb working with Rani. I was a big fan of hers before and I remember the first day I met her was at the reading for “Laaga Chunari Mein Daag”. Very shyly and nervously, I told her that I am a big fan of hers and she just laughed very sweetly and I don’t even think she even took me seriously but I was. It’s a pleasure working with her she is very professional but she is very much a real person. She doesn’t have starry airs and she is not snooty and goes of in a corner at all so it was difficult for me to reconcile the two images - the Rani I know on screen and the Rani I knew in person. There is so much to learn from her, she is a gifted actress, a great dancer. I think the chemistry we shared shows on screen. I had a lovely time.

 * Kunal Kapoor, actor
 * Rani I am going to be very grateful to. Rani is exceptional. I think after Madhuri Dixit if there is anybody that can really dance and hold your attention, it's Rani and she was kind enough to help me while this song was going on and I think I have managed fairly well with her help because I crushed Konkana’s toes only once throughout the song. It was really nice of her. She helped me through a lot of steps.
 * http://www.asianoutlook.com/aoforum/showthread.php?t=12349&page=3.

What Others Had To Say?

 * General Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan:
 * She's very popular in Pakistan.

 * Manish Malhotra, fashion designer:
 * Rani is one of the few actresses who know how to carry a Sari well. She looks incredibly sexy in some of these outfits (in the film). The sensuousness she exudes is aesthetic.

 * Komal Nahata, critic:
 * She is a great performer, has bagged the most sought after productions and has all the big banners and heroes in her kitty.
 * Sanjay Mehta, distributor:
 * Our industry might still be hero-dominated but she has the best track record among heroines.

 * Jaideep Sahni, writer:
 * With Rani around, you can never realize how big a star she is.

 * Vinod Mirani, box office editor:
 * She has the ability to stand out even in the biggest of star casts.

At Special Events

 * On being honored at the Casablanca Film Festival in 2005:
 * Fifty thousand people on the beach watching 'Chalte Chalte' with me, then asking me questions about the songs and dances, the idiom and language of expression was incredible. I don't think I'll ever forget my experience in Casablanca.

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 * On being invited to the State Dinner with General Pervez Musharraf:
 * It was like a dream come true! To just be part of such an event made me feel that I've done something to achieve this.
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Benjamin N. Cardozo

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (24 May 1870 – 9 July 1938) was a long-time Justice of the Court of Appeals of New York, where his opinions included many declarations that would become famous in legal circles; he was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1932.

Judicial opinions

 * Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
 * In re Rouss, 221 N.Y. 81, 84 (N.Y. 1917).

 * Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
 * In re Rouss, 221 NY 81, 91 (N.Y. 1917).

 * The defendant styles herself "a creator of fashions." Her favor helps a sale. Manufacturers of dresses, millinery and like articles are glad to pay for a certificate of her approval. The things which she designs, fabrics, parasols and what not, have a new value in the public mind when issued in her name. She employed the plaintiff to help her to turn this vogue into money.
 * Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, 222 N.Y. 88, 91; 118 N.E. 214 (N.Y. 1917). This opening paragraph has been debated among legal practitioners, some of whom take its tone to be a sly rebuke by Cardozo of a profession which he considered to have an exaggerated influence.

 * The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal. It takes a broader view to-day. A promise may be lacking, and yet the whole writing may be "instinct with an obligation," imperfectly expressed. If that is so, there is a contract.
 * Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, 222 N.Y. 88, 91; 118 N.E. 214 (N.Y. 1917).

 * Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
 * Wagner v. International Railway Co., 232 N.Y. 13 (N.Y. 1926), setting forth the rescue doctrine which holds negligent parties liable not only for injury to the victim, but to those who attempt to rescue the victim.

 * Fulfillment may fall short of expectation. At least there has been gained a foothold from which occasion can be seized.
 * Walton Water Co. v. Village of Walton, 238 N.Y. 46, 50 (1924).

 * Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
 * Richard v. Credit Suisse, 242 N.Y. 346, 351 (N.Y. 1926).

 * The whole problem of the relation between parent and subsidiary corporations is one that is still enveloped in the mists of metaphor. Metaphors in law are to be narrowly watched, for starting as devices to liberate thought, they end often by enslaving it. We say at times that the corporate entity will be ignored when the parent corporation operates a business through a subsidiary which is characterized as an 'alias' or a 'dummy.'... Dominion may be so complete, interference so obtrusive, that by the general rules of agency the parent will be a principal and the subsidiary an agent.
 * Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway, 244 N.Y. 84, 94, 155 N.E. 58, 61 (N.Y. 1926). Sometimes misquoted as referring to "figures of speech" rather than metaphors, or with other minor variations.

 * Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
 * Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (N.Y. 1928), describing the fiduciary duties inherent in a partnership.

 * Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
 * Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 255 N.Y. 170, 179, 174 N.E. 441, 444 (N.Y. 1931).

 * Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.
 * Woolford Realty Co., Inc., v. Rose, 286 U.S. 319, 330 (1932)

 * Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
 * West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (No.2), 294 U.S. 79, 82, (1935).

 * Price security, we are told, is only a special form of sanitary security; the economic motive is secondary and subordinate; the state intervenes to make its inhabitants healthy, and not to make them rich. On that assumption we are asked to say that intervention will be upheld as a valid exercise by the state of its internal police power, though there is an incidental obstruction to commerce between one state and another. This would be to eat up the rule under the guise of an exception. Economic welfare is always related to health, for there can be no health if men are starving. Let such an exception be admitted, and all that a state will have to do in times of stress and strain is to say that its farmers and merchants and workmen must be protected against competition from without, lest they go upon the poor relief lists or perish altogether. To give entrance to that excuse would be to invite a speedy end of our national solidarity. The Constitution was framed under the dominion of a political philosophy less parochial in range. It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
 * Baldwin v. Seelig, 294 U.S. 511, 523, (1935)

 * Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
 * Roberts v. New York, 295 U.S. 264, 278 (1935).

 * Of that freedom [of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
 * Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 327, (1937).

Other writings

 * Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
 * Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923) as quoted in The American Journal of International Law Vol. 29 (1935), p. 32.

 * The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
 * Mr. Justice Holmes, 44 Harv. L. Rec. 682, 289 (1931).

 * With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
 * "Law and Literature" in Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931), p. 9.

 * As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.
 * On types of judicial writing, in "Law and Literature" in Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931), p. 10.

 * Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
 * "The Game of the Law" In Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931), p. 163.

 * The judicial process is one of compromise, a compromise between paradoxes, between certainty and uncertainty, between the literalism that is the exaltation of the written word and the nihilism that is destructive of regularity and order.
 * Jurisprudence (address before the New York State Bar Association Meeting, Jan. 22, 1932), republished in Margaret E. Hall, ed., Selected Writings of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1947), p. 25.

 * In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
 * As quoted in Nine Old Men (1936) by Drew Pearson and Robert Sharon Allen, p. 221.

 * You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study the life of mankind, for this is the life you must order, and, to order with wisdom, must know. You will study the precepts of justice, for these are the truths that through you shall come to their hour of triumph. Here is the high emprise, the fine endeavor, the splendid possibility of achievement, to which I summon you and bid you welcome.
 * Excerpt from speech delivered at the 74th commencement of the Albany Law School on June 10, 1925, which is reproduced on a gigantic plaque on the west side (facing the setting sun, as if to say, "Go West, young man.") of the UC Berkeley School of Law's main building, formerly known as Boalt Hall.

The Altruist in Politics (1889)

 * Commencement address at Columbia College (1889)

 * There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.

 * Again and again, the altruist has arisen in politics, has bidden us share with others the product of our toil, and has proclaimed the communistic dogma as the panacea for our social ills. So today, amid the buried hopes and buried projects of the past, the doctrine of communism still lives in the minds of men. Under stress of misfortune, or in dread of tyranny, it is still preached in modern times as Plato preached it in the world of the Greeks. Yet it is indeed doubtful whether, in the history of mankind, a doctrine was ever taught more impracticable or more false to the principles it professes than this very doctrine of communism. In a world where self-interest is avowedly the ruling motive, it seeks to establish at once an all-reaching and all-controlling altruism. In a world where every man is pushing and fighting to outstrip his fellows, it would make him toil with like vigor for their common welfare. In a world where a man's activity is measured by the nearness of reward, it would hold up a prospective recompense as an equal stimulant to labor. … In the future, when the remoteness of his reward shall have weakened the laborer's zeal, we shall be able to judge more fairly of the blessings that the communist offers.

 * It is the refutation alike of communism and socialism that they thwart the instinct of expansion; that they substitute for individual energy the energy of the government; that they substitute for human personality the blind, mechanical power of the State. The one system, as the other, marks the end of individualism. The one system, as the other, would make each man the image of his neighbor. The one system, as the other, would hold back the progressive, and, by uniformity of reward, gain uniformity of type. I can look forward to no blissful prospect for a race of men that, under the dominion of the State, at the cost of all freedom of action, at the cost, indeed, of their own true selves, shall enjoy, if one will, a fair abundance of the material blessings of life. … Into that prison of socialism, with broken enterprise and broken energy, as serfs under the mastery of the State, while human personality is preferred to unreasoning mechanism, mankind must hesitate to step.

The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)

 * There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. All their lives, forces which they do not recognize and cannot name, have been tugging at them — inherited instincts, traditional beliefs, acquired convictions; and the resultant is an outlook on life, a conception of social needs. … In this mental background every problem finds it setting. We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.
 * Pages 12-13

 * The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
 * Page 17

 * It is well enough to say that we shall be consistent, but consistent with what? . . . The origins of the rule? The course and tendency of development? With logic or philosophy? With the fundamental conceptions of jurisprudence? All these loyalties are possible. All have sometimes prevailed.
 * Page 64

 * My analysis of the judicial process comes then to this, and little more: logic, and history, and custom, and utility, and the accepted standards of right conduct, are the forces which singly or in combination shape the progress of the law. Which of these forces dominate depends largely upon the comparative importance or value of the social interests that will be thereby promoted or impaired. … The most fundamental social interest is that law shall be uniform and impartial. … Uniformity ceases to be a good when it becomes uniformity of oppression.
 * Page 112

 * If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, from experience and study and reflection; in brief, from life itself.
 * Page 113

 * I am ready to concede that the rule of adherence to precedent, though it ought not to be abandoned, ought to be in some degree relaxed. I think that when a rule, after it has been duly tested by experience, has been found to be inconsistent with the sense of justice or with the social welfare, there should be less hesitation in frank avowal and full abandonment. … That court best serves the law which recognizes that the rules of law which grew up in a remote generation may, in the fullness of experience, be found to serve another generation badly, and which discards the old rule when it finds that another rule of law represents what should be according to the established and settled judgment of society.
 * Pages 150-51

 * We like to picture to ourselves the field of law as accurately mapped and plotted. We draw our little lines, and they are hardly down before we blur them. As in time and space, so here. Divisions are working hypotheses, adopted for convenience. … So also the duty of a judge becomes itself a question of degree, and he is a useful judge or a poor one as he estimates the measure accurately or loosely. He must balance all his ingredients, his philosophy, his logic, his analogies, his history, his customs, his sense of right, and all the rest, and adding a little here and taking out a little there, must determine, as wisely as he can, which weight shall tip the scales.
 * Page 161

 * The judicial process, as was said at the outset of these lectures, is a process of search and comparison, and little else.
 * Page 163

 * I was much troubled in spirit, in my first years upon the bench, to find how trackless was the ocean on which I had embarked. I sought for certainty. I was oppressed and disheartened when I found that the quest for it was futile. I was trying to reach land, the solid land of fixed and settled rules, the paradise of a justice that would declare itself by tokens plainer and more commanding than its pale and glimmering reflections in my own vacillating mind and conscience.
 * Page 165-166.

 * I have spoken of the forces of which judges avowedly avail to shape the form and content of their judgments. Even these forces are seldom fully in consciousness. They lie so near the surface, however, that their existence and influence are not likely to be disclaimed. But the subject is not exhausted with the recognition of their power. Deep below consciousness are other forces, the likes and the dislikes, the predilections and the prejudices, the complex of instincts and emotions and habits and convictions, which make the man, whether he be litigant or judge.
 * Page 167

 * The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
 * Page 168

 * I sometimes think that we worry ourselves overmuch about the enduring consequences of our errors. They may work a little confusion for a time. In the end, they will be modified or corrected or their teachings ignored. The future takes care of such things. In the endless process of testing and retesting, there is a constant rejection of the dross, and a constant retention of whatever is pure and sound and fine.
 * Page 179

The Growth of the Law (1924)

 * In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.
 * Page 17

 * Magic words and incantations are as fatal to our science as they are to any other. Methods, when classified and separated, acquire their true bearing and perspective as a means to an end, not as ends in themselves. We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is an illusion.
 * Pages 66 – 67

 * I do not underrate the yearning for mechanical and formal tests. They are possible and useful in zones upon the legal sphere. The pain of choosing is the pain of marking off such zones from others. It is a pain we must endure, for uniformity of method will carry us upon the rocks. The curse of this fluidity, of an ever shifting approximation, is one the law must bear, or other curses yet more dreadful will be invited in exchange.
 * Pages 67 – 68

 * Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
 * Page 132

The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928)

 * The reconciliation of the irreconcilable, the merger of antitheses, the synthesis of opposites, these are the great problems of the law... We have the claims of stability to be harmonized with those of progress. We are to reconcile liberty with equality, and both of them with order. The property rights of the individual we are to respect, yet we are not to press them to the point at which they threaten the welfare or the security of the many. We must preserve to justice its universal quality, and yet leave to it the capacity to be individual and particular.

 * The state in commissioning its judges has commanded them to judge, but neither in constitution nor in statute has it formulated a code to define the manner of their judging. The pressure of society invests new forms of conduct in the minds of the multitude with the sanction of moral obligation, and the same pressure working upon the mind of the judge invests them finally through his action with the sanction of the law.

 * Our course of advance ... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes. Progress comes per saltum, by successive compromises between extremes, compromises often … between "positivism and idealism". The notion that a jurist can dispense with any consideration as to what the law ought to be arises from the fiction that the law is a complete and closed system, and that judges and jurists are mere automata to record its will or phonographs to pronounce its provisions.

 * It comes down to this. There are certain forms of conduct which at any given place and epoch are commonly accepted under the combined influence of reason, practice and tradition, as moral or immoral. … Law accepts as the pattern of its justice the morality of the community whose conduct it assumes to regulate. In saying this, we are not to blind ourselves to the truth that uncertainty is far from banished. Morality is not merely different in different communities. Its level is not the same for all the component groups within the same community. A choice must still be made between one group standard and another. We have still to face the problem, at which one of these levels does the social pressure become strong enough to convert the moral norm into a jural one? All that we can say is that the line will be higher than the lowest level of moral principle and practice, and lower than the highest. The law will not hold the crowd to the morality of saints and seers. It will follow, or strive to follow, the principle and practice of the men and women of the community whom the social mind would rank as intelligent and virtuous.

 * A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind. … Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.

 * Liberty in the most literal sense is the negation of law for law is restraint, and the absence of restraint is anarchy. On the other hand, anarchy by destroying restraint would leave liberty the exclusive possession of the strong or the unscrupulous.

 * What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

 * They do things better with logarithms.
 * Commenting on the uncertainty of the law.

 * Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.

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Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld

Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born August 23, 1975, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American writer.

Prep (2005)

 * As for the politics here, what can you do? There’s a lot of posturing, but it’s all kind of meaningless.
 * p. 9

 * At Ault, it wasn't just that we weren't supposed to be bad or unethical; we weren't even supposed to be ordinary, and stealing was worse than ordinary. It was unseemly, lacking subtlety, revealing a wish for things you did not already have.
 * p. 12

 * I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
 * p. 14

 * I did not scream or hug anyone. In fact, as the noise gained momentum, I felt its opposite, a draining of excitement. But not a draining of tension - my body was still stiff and alert, and the impulse I had, strangely, was to weep. Not because I was sad but because I was not happy, and yet, like my classmates, I'd experienced an emotional surge, I too felt the need for expression.  This phenomenon -- being gripped by an overwhelming wave of feeling that was clearly not the feeling of the people around me -- had also happened at a pep rally: It made me uncomfortable, because I didn't want anyone to notice that I wasn't jumping up and down or cheering, and it also thrilled me, because it made the world seem full of possibilities that could make my heart pound. I think, looking back, that this was the single best thing about Ault, the sense of possibility… In my whole life, Ault was the place with the greatest density of people to fall in love with.
 * p. 38

 * For the whole movie, I had that sense of heightened awareness that is like discomfort but is not discomfort exactly -- a tiring, enjoyable vigilance. I did not get a grasp on the movie's plot, or the names of any of the characters. Then it was over and the lights came on… Maybe this was the place Cross and I would part ways, I thought. And maybe we wouldn't even say good-bye, now that he was with his friends again; maybe I was just supposed to know.
 * p. 53

 * I have always found those times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will - that is the part that's almost unbearable.
 * p. 65

 * Before or after your stole my best friend? But the real question is if you were using me to get to Martha all along, or if you just took an opportunity when you saw it.
 * p. 103

 * Flawed as I was, someone recognized me.
 * p. 104

 * As I watched her leave, my mind shot ahead to a time in the future when we would not share a room, when our daily lives would not overlap. The idea made me feel as if I were being held underwater.  Then I thought, you’re being so ridiculous; you have almost three more years together, and I could breathe again.  But I knew, I always knew- and as unhappy as I often was, the knowledge never made me feel better; instead it seemed the worst part of all- that our lives at Ault were only temporary.
 * p. 134

 * I believed then that if you had a good encounter with a person, it was best not to see them again for as long as possible.
 * p. 159 cited in: The New Yorker (2004). Vol. 80, Nr. 38-45. p.87

 * How did you even know if you loved another person? Was it a hunch, like a good smell that you couldn’t identify for sure, or did a time come when you had evidence?  Was it like walking through a house and once you’d crossed a certain threshold, that was love and you could never turn back? Maybe you’d go into other rooms, you’d fight or even breakup, but you’d always be on the other side of love, after and not before it. My interest in couples felt anthropological - even liking Cross, even wanting to hear from Martha that she could imagine me dating him, I myself could not imagine us together... When I through of Sin - Jun and Clara - and I did so often- what was hardest to wrap my head around was how they’d been a couple while living in the same room. How had they known when to fool around and when to just sit at their desks doing homework? Hadn’t it been either too intense, too tiring to always be around the person you wanted to impress, or else too familiar? Maybe in such close quarters you gave up hope of impressing them and sat there picking your earwax and not caring if you looked cute. But didn’t you lose something there, too? If that was what people meant by intimacy, it didn’t hold much appeal for me- it seemed like you’d be fighting each other for oxygen.
 * p. 239

 * Hardly ever did it matter if you brushed your hair before driving to the grocery store, rarely did you work in an office where you cared what more than two or three people thought of you. At Ault, caring about everything was draining, but it was also exhilarating.
 * p. 290

 * But then she’d know what she’d probably only suspected- how messed up I really was, how much I’d been misleading them for the last four years.
 * p. 321

 * But while I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.
 * p. 321

 * I forgot, over and over, that the fact of my wanting something wasn’t enough to make it happen.
 * p. 325

Quotes about Curtis Sittenfeld

 * The newly minted author of the novel Prep talks about high school, gratuitous sex, and why her parents shouldn't be worried
 * In: Interview by Rory Evans (2005) in: Cincinnati Magazine, jan 2005. p. 67
 * When I read Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel Prep, I highlighted passages for the first time since I was a student. So many of the main character's high school observations rang true that I couldn't help myself.
 * Melissa Walker (2006) "Interview with Curtis Sittenfeld". In: ELLE girl (July 3, 2006) Vol. 5, nr. 5. p.90

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Bill Burr

William Frederick Burr (born June 10, 1968) is an Irish American stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster from Canton, Massachusetts.

Quotes

 * Seriously, any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice. – You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"
 * Premium Blend, episode [2.03], June 20, 1998

 * Oh look, an ATM! Ok, here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good idea! Look at all the lights! This is beautiful.
 * Premium Blend, episode [2.03], June 20, 1998

 * There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from "No, don't say that" to "Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens."
 * Why Do I Do This? (2008)

 * I am so pro-swine flu it's ridiculous. We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.
 * Let It Go (2010)

 * Women are just constantly patting themselves on the back about how difficult their lives are and no one corrects 'em cause they wanna fuck 'em.
 * Let It Go (2010)

 * (on whether motherhood is the world's most difficult job) I did roofing in the middle of July as a redhead. I thought that THAT was difficult. But these mothers are bending over at the waist, putting DVDs into DVD players... I don't know how they do it!
 * Let It Go (2010)

 * (on whether motherhood is the world's most difficult job) Dude, any job that you can do in your pajamas is not a difficult job, alright? You're 35 years old playing hide and go seek... you're living the dream! No time card, no taxes... you're off the fucking grid!
 * Let It Go (2010)

 * Rub one out like a man, it's the champagne of victory.
 * You People Are All the Same (2012)

 * Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse? Sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.
 * Monday Morning Podcast

 * First of all, getting mad at a politician is like getting mad at Jennifer Aniston cause it's bad episode of Friends. They don't write it.
 * Opie and Anthony, 5-1-08

 * I'm not a big fan of Steve Jobs, personally. I dunno, I just don't understand what the big deal was with that guy... I don't get it. (on whether Jobs personally invented the iPhone) But did he? Did he? Did he sit down, "I'm gonna invent the iPhone!" and then he sits there soldering, possibly welding... didn't he have like a crew of guys helping him out? Then why when he went to those nerd fests didn't he have like a chorus of scientists behind him who helped him out, too? He walked out like he was Tesla... I think he just kinda, like, told people what to invent. Like he just kinda came in like, "I want my whole music collection in that phone. GET ON IT." And then all these nameless, faceless guys made it happen and then they have the big nerd concert and he goes out there by himself. No belt, you know, sneakers on... I just didn't buy it.
 * Conan on TBS, February 2012

 * Bankers get bonuses... the upper echelon get anywhere from ten million up to a hundred million, and the President of the United States makes like four hundred grand a year. So right there. I've watched enough wrestling to see a rigged game... There's like people with Youtube channels making as much as the leader of the free world. So I just think he's set up to be bribed, and, uh, you act accordingly. So basically anybody who comes at me going, you know, "The conservative right or these liberals..." like, I just zone out. I can't even talk to you if you're actually looking at it like those are two (separate) choices that you're getting. You're not... Once you get past a certain level, it just seems like... you've jumped in the river and you act accordingly or you get that convertible ride in Dallas.
 * Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, 2014

 * That's what killed me, when Bruce became Caitlin, that was like, a national news story, like at a ridiculous level. There's like, baby seals washing up on the beach cause there's no fish left, and they're talking to this... lady, you know, like, "So Bruce, can your Olympic back handle a D cup or you gonna go with something a little more perky?"... I miss that guy. I miss him already. He should've told us. He should've given us a chance to say goodbye. I watched him on the Olympics. I watched him on Chips. I watched him on that horrible show my wife watched where he just walks around in the background... And then you couldn't react, you couldn't on any level, you couldn't (be like) "What the f(uck)?" on any level. You couldn't say that or you were automatically homophobic. Like, dude, I didn't hear your inner thoughts. I didn't know what you were doing... You shave your beard off, people are like "Oh my God, that's your chin? Wow!" This guy walked out a dude, came back a woman, and you're just supposed to be like, "Oh yeah, so anyways, Caitlin, (as I was saying)..."
 * Conan on TBS, August 2015

 * I get sick of people making excuses for her. She blew it. Look, you lost to a guy who said three things a week that would torpedo anybody else's campaign. How do you do that? That's like you're playing a football game and the other team throws twenty interceptions, and you still figure out how to blow it. At what point do you take responsibility? ... You blew it. You. Blew it. You put the wrong team around you, you didn't generate enough excitement to beat this guy who (was just) tripping over one coffee table after another...
 * Conan on TBS, January 2017

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Michael Powell (director)

Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director. Via his partnership with Emeric Pressburger and their production company "The Archers", the two men wrote, produced and directed a series of British films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), A Matter of Life and Death (US: Stairway to Heaven 1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). His film Peeping Tom (1960), now considered a classic, was heavily vilified on first release seriously damaging his career.

Many film-makers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have cited Powell as an influence. In 1981, he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award along with Pressburger, the highest honour the British Academy of Film and Television Arts can give a filmmaker.

Quotes

 * I live cinema. I chose the cinema when I was very young, sixteen years old, and from then on my memories virtually coincide with the history of the cinema ... I'm not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through cinema; everything that I've had in the way of education has been through the cinema; insofar as I'm interested in images, in books, in music, it's all due to the cinema.
 * Midi-Minuit Fantastique (October 1968)

 * I got my first assignment as a director in 1927. I was slim, arrogant, intelligent, foolish, shy, cocksure, dreamy and irritating. Today, I'm no longer slim.
 * Michael Powell (1987)

 * [of his wife Frankie] In fact, if only I had been the perfect husband, she would have been the perfect wife.
 * Million Dollar Movie

Attributed

 * [Cinematographer] Jack Cardiff once asked Powell "Michael, do you make films for all types of audiences, or just for yourself?" Michael shook his head vigorously. "I make films for myself. What I express I hope most people will understand. For the rest, well, that's their problem."

 * "My master in film, Buñuel, was a far greater storyteller than I. It was just that in my films miracles occur on the screen."

 * "We decided to go ahead with David O. (Selznick) the way hedgehogs make love: verrry carefully !"

 * "For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art."

 * "Actors and technicians were being demobbed every day. Very soon the only ham actor left in the combined forces would be General George Patton."

 * "The great innovators have always been fearless.... I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I have been alone in an office with Louis B. Mayer."

 * "Art is merciless observation, sympathy, imagination, and a sense of detachment that is almost cruelty."

 * "Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there."

 * "[After Peeping Tom] When they got me on my own [the critics] gleefully sawed off the limb and jumped up and down on the corpse."

 * "The truth lies in black and white."

 * "Seventy years ago there were men like D.W. Griffith and seventy years later - now - there are not many men like Martin Scorsese. But so long as there is one there will be others, and the art of the cinema will survive."

 * "I am the teller of the tale, not the creator of the story."

 * "Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn't."

Quotes about Michael Powell

 * he was determined to make Earthsea into a movie.
 * 1982 interview in Conversations with Ursula Le Guin

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