Christine Lahti Quotes

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

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• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Help
  • Loved

• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Opinion
  • Mathematics

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Gutter

• It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Christian
  • Difficult
  • Islamic

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Different
  • City
  • Road

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Working
  • Modeling

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
  • Want

• I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Church

• I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Think
  • Democracy
  • Limits

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Women
  • Brother
  • Husband

• We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Know
  • Attention

• I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

  

  Maxine Peake

• That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Great
  • Music

• No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Mind
  • Clever

• What's the big deal if I dress casually and dance in my backyard.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Dance

• Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great