Quotes by Actresses - Page 48

Whatever man imagines is possible
Julie Andrews Edwards
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
Sarah Jessica Parker
...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?
Felicia Day
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Jan Sterling
I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.
Brooke Hayward
Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
Audrey Hepburn
Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. "Ah, Frank! I thought you were going to be down here fucking Lana.
Ava Gardner
There are some wonderful aspects to Christmas. It's magical. And each year, from at least November, well, September, well, if I'm honest, May, I look forward to it hugely.
Miranda Hart
My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.
Chelsea Handler
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
Marilyn Monroe
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.
Oprah Winfrey
The roughest roads often lead to the top.
Christina Aguilera
If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.
Susan E. Isaacs
It is not how old you are but how you are old.
Marie Dressier
I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.
Joan Rivers
No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.
Kate Hudson
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
Jennifer O'Neill
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West
She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
He was a boy, she was a girlCan I make it any more obviousHe was a punk, and she did ballet,What more can I sayHe wanted her,she wouldn't tell, but secretly she wanted him as well,All of her friends stuck up their nose,They didn't like his baggy clothesHe was a sk8er boi, she said see you later boy,he wasn't good enough for her
Avril Lavigne
Bass players have bigger instruments." Charlie's slow grin curled her toes and he added, "We also do it deeper.
Rachel Harris
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
Gillian Anderson
That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.
Julie Andrews Edwards
I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
Lauren Graham
Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.
Joan Rivers
He better call Becky with the good hair.
Beyoncé Knowles
I have nothing but a great head to offer.Is that enough?
Sola Kosoko
Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something. Which is great. The hard part is, you'd better make sure you deserve it. So, how did I make sure that I deserved it?To answer that, I would like to quote from the Twitter bio of one of my favorite people, Kevin Hart. It reads:My name is Kevin Hart and I WORK HARD!!! That pretty much sums me up!!! Everybody Wants To Be Famous But Nobody Wants To Do The Work!
Mindy Kaling
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
Stella Adler
I can feel them. The babies. They're not crawling all over me. They're not vomiting in my hair or shrieking. They're doing perfectly normal baby things, and I'm keeping them alive. But I resent them. Their constancy, their intrusion on my relationship and my free time and my naps and my imagination and my heart. They've come too soon, and I can't do any of what I had planned. All I can do is survive.
Lena Dunham
It's disappointing enough to know that the people we love will sometimes lie, but it is almost worse when we remember that strangers do this too, and this is why it is best not to admit our lies to strangers because it is not pleasant to learn that someone will lie even when there is little to nothing at stake.
Catherine Lacey
Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant...if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?
Chelsea Handler
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and
Susan Sarandon
The Place would already have started the leisurely, enjoyable process of digesting her into just one more piece of local gore-lore, half ghost story and half morality play, half urban myth and half just the way life goes. It would eat her memory whole, the same way its ground had eaten her body.
Tana French
In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
Staring into his eyes, she noticed a thin circle of gray around the green. A SILVER LINING, she thought.
Rachel Harris
A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.
Mistinguette
People are not going to love you unless you love them.
Pat Carroll
Phenomenology became the grounds for variants of standpoint epistemology: if a phenomenon seems real, then it is real enough. A Marxist vision of standpoint epistemology, on the other hand, does not privilege individual perception as the arbiter of reality.
Holly Lewis
Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Sophie Tucker
You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.
Elaine Dundy
Free a man of the constraints that limit and inhibit his development, and you have a free human being. Freedom is the natural state of man.” He looked away from the boy for a moment and recalled his youth, his own search for self. “My boy,” he imparted with a ferocious passion that shook them both by the throat, “there is nothing negative about our human potential—do you understand me? God Himself created you the way you are. Do not let anyone in this world convince you otherwise. And you are capable of anything, my boy. There is and shall always be a disparity among the gifts God has granted men, but we all deserve equal consideration. All men, no matter how low, how basic, or how tormented, deserve compassion, dignified brotherhood, and respect.t“But part of respecting all men is respecting ourselves. Recognizing that God has blessed you. By embracing these gifts, we live as God lives, with love for all He has created—with an open heart.
Alexandra Silber
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
Zooey Deschanel
It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.
Rebecca Wells
If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.
Amy Poehler
I truly believe that people do the best they can.
Katharine Hepburn
If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.
Tana French
The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.
Pearl Bailey
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Sophia Loren
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric)
Courtney Love
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
Old age ain't no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.
Leslie Carroll
That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.
Catherine Lacey
In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down, and I’m underneath. I’m crawling, sometimes for days, under the rubble. And as I crawl I realize that this one was the Big One. It was the earthquake that shook the whole world, and every single thing was destroyed. But this isn’t the scary part. That part always comes right before I wake up. I am crawling and then suddenly I remember: the earthquake happened years ago. This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming something else.
Miranda July
It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex —everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children.
Angelina Jolie