Christine Baranski Quotes

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

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• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • France
  • Southern
  • Invasion

• Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Alcohol

• It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Political

• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
  • Rules
  • Month

• Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

  

  Orson Welles
  • She
  • Husband
  • Fool

• We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • May
  • Hope
  • Government

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Would
  • Impression
  • Gone

• I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Serious
  • Easy

• On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Free
  • Party

• 'Life' in this 'society' being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of 'society' being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind.

  

  Anne Bancroft
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Movie

• The only real difference between shooting 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' was that on 'Serenity,' we had a lot more freedom with time. When you're shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with 'Serenity,' we could shoot one scene all day long.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Tree
  • Management
  • Position

• I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • America
  • Latin

• Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • School
  • Catholic

• It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

  

  Christine Baranski