Quotes by Actresses - Page 14

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.
Anna Deavere Smith
I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
Amy Poehler
As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
Rebecca Wells
It’s funny to me that most of the cooking in the world is done by women, and yet when you look at modern Western cuisine, it’s largely based on what a few dead Frenchmen have opined to be the correct way of doing things. It’s funny how these old European men used a label like “mother sauce” when there were no women to be found anywhere near those old professional kitchens. Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.
Padma Lakshmi
One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.
Jennifer O'Neill
I take my integrity seriously, but make no mistake, I do not rely on others to do the same.
Julieanne O'Connor
Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, 'Listen, you're not pregnant.' I said, 'Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit.
Wanda Sykes
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
Stella Adler
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing having to change taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
Stop trying to make everyone happy. You're not tequila.
Emmy Rossum
I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, almost absurd distance.
Carrie Brownstein
Even through the darkest phaseBe it thick or thinAlways someone marches braveHere beneath my skin
k.d. lang
You are all you will ever have for certain .
June Havoc
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Ellen DeGeneres
Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.
Holly Robinson
He speaks the words of a distant prophet as though He has written the words Himself.
Roma Downey
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
Ava Gardner
Perhaps I didn’t voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I did considering whether he required an unreasonable level of tending.
Padma Lakshmi
I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon
Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
Miranda July
This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.
Mindy Kaling
It always took my breath away,’ he said, ‘that the five of us could have found one another–against such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up… Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they’re for you; that’s your life, your future, fidgeting in that line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don’t miss it.
Tana French
People who grew up in major cities may wonder why the hell I would act like it's a big deal to be unaccompanied in New York City at that age. It's populated with both adults and children, it's a functioning metropolis, Kevin McCallister was only ten in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and that kid saved Christmas. Conversely, people from suburban areas act like my parents sent me wandering around the site of the Baby Jessica well, blindfolded and holding a flaming baton. So pick a side and prepare to judge me wither way!
Anna Kendrick
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.
Anouk Aimee
My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
Jamie Lee Curtis
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
Barbara Hershey
You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!
Tina Fey
Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.
Rachel Joyce
He moved closer to her. “You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.
Elizabeth Morgan
I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.
Tana French
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.
Lady Gaga
The delicious, semiconscious, edge-of-wonderland kind of sleep, where I'm awake enough to control my dreams but asleep enough to forget that I'm doing it.
Lauren Miller
To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.
Tana French
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
Emma Thompson
There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.
Alexandra Silber
The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love.
Sara Wiseman
[What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton
Sasha Grey
I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years
Sahndra Fon Dufe
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Whoopi Goldberg
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
Penelope Keith
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
True beauty in a woman is reflected in the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows.
Audrey Hepburn
Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.
Madonna
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Oprah Winfrey
It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
Jane Adams
When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
Eyes are the windows to the soul. A smile is the mirror of the heart
Janna Cachola
Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
Tina Fey
Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on -- and because of -- hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on.
Dana Reeve
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Simone Signoret
Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.
Emma Watson
I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.
Candy Darling
What is beautiful is goodand who is good will soon be beautiful.
Cathryn Michon
What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.
Elizabeth Olsen
My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.
Aglaja Veteranyi
Why are babies allowed to cry when they wake up, but adults crying when they wake is frowned upon? Babies are permitted to act like assholes whenever they feel like it and no one blinks...
Chelsea Handler