Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "

Related Quotes:

" I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene. "

" I am not a has-been. I am a will be. "

" A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. "

" The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. "

" My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all. "

" I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life. "

" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "

" I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "

" My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it. "

" I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. "

" When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same. "

" Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. "

" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "

" Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. "

" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "

" I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always. "

" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "

" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "

" There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree. "

" We live in an age of mediocrity. "

" My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time. "

" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "

" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "

" When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being. "

" Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it. "

" I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. "

" That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you. "

" It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why. "

" You can't always be a leading lady. "

" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "