Florence Quotes

Noel Coward (to O`Toole): "If you`d been any prettier, it would have been Florence of Arabia".

(From 1994 interview when asked the reasons for the success of A Room with a View (1985)) "I`ve never seen it, so I don`t know. Florence was lovely of course, and it`s a wonderful love story. I did enjoy doing the part, because Maggie Smith and I were old friends from 1958. We both arrived in Florence on the same day and neither of us had any family with us, so we would spend all day together filming and then go out to dinner together, catching up on our Old Vic days. But, I didn`t enjoy working with James Ivory. I didn`t feel that I was on his wavelength and I didn`t feel that he wanted me in the film, I have to say that. I remember doing that scene in the middle of the square where she goes mad and attacks the man selling postcards; James went to see the rushes and told me afterwards that everyone had laughed at it, they`d thought it was very funny. `Well done`, he said to me. I thought perhaps we`d turned the corner but, when I came to post-sync the film, that scene was missing. When I asked why, he told me that Helena Bonham Carter hadn`t been feeling up to it that day, so he`d cut the whole sequence. I don`t know if that was the real reason he cut it - I just don`t know".

It`s frustrating for the media to see me going about my work like Florence Nightingale - They`d like me to be Rangeeli Rani.

If I hadn`t seen it with my own eyes, I`d probably be skeptical myself. I`ve been to the Oregon coast and taken pictures of seals. I`ve been on the beach with them. I`ve watched them at Bandon and at Florence. I do know what they look like and I have no doubt it was a seal. I`d swear it on a stack of Bibles.

I`m not an expert on Florence Road, but I had to use it last Friday to give a friend a ride to work. It took us more than 15 minutes to get off Florence Road onto Old Nashville Highway.

It can be that some people decide that I will spend my life in Florence, Colorado,

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England