“If you go through the hot furnace of hardships, you will be refined like gold.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “Max would conclude, “that’s who I want to be. The pope. And I’ll do the same thing he does. I’ll keep all the goddamn money.”— Richard Russo “The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”— Oscar Wilde “I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don’t sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don’t. There’s always a good reason for doing something.”– Famke Janssen