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.

Quotes to Explore
-
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
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.
-
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
-
I believe in the free enterprise system.
-
I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
-
All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
-
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
-
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
-
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
-
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.
-
No one needs anything; they have to want it.
-
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
-
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
-
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.
-
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
-
We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
-
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
-
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
-
Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
-
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
-
I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule.
-
The people who hear what I'm saying when I haven't said a word... they are the ones I call friends.
-
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.