Christine Baranski Quotes
Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I look back on the influence my dad had on my life and career, and I just try to take the best parts of what he had.
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I'm not a big horror movie fan. I am afraid of them; they scare me.
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David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.
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It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
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Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
