The Blush of Youth

Liv Tyler: “There are exceptionally pretty girls, and there are good actresses, but Liv…is a whiz-bang combination of the two.”

Diane Lane: “[She’s] got the kind of line-drawn beauty that you see in an illustration of a fable. Yet she’s completely alert to the moment.”

Matt McConaughey: “[He] takes evident delight in tarnishing his golden-boy halo.”

River Phoenix: “When he ate, he ate with his hands. For me, he’ll always be that beautiful, drippy mess.”

Billy Crudup: “[A] transcendent goof.”

Rachel Weisz: “Her work in [The Constant Gardener]…transformed her career: she can no longer be dismissed as just a thinking man’s sex symbol.”

Nicole Kidman: “[She] has a lot of Vivien Leigh in her…She has this coltish, intellectual grace.”

Ed Norton: “He had a habit of looking down when he talked, looking at the table, almost stammering. It wasn’t just a shyness…it was connecting to the thought…He sniffs in the right places.”

Scott Speedman: “More than a few fans of [Felicity], upon first glimpsing the handsome actor, could understand why [the title character] would follow him across the entire country.”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: “Imagine Fred Astaire hiding in the body of an edgy intellectual who’s as likely to quote Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig as RZA.”