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!
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
-
I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
-
I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
-
It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
-
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
-
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.
-
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
-
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
-
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
-
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
-
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.
-
I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
-
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
-
The good news is that parents can help significantly reduce deaths and injuries to children by taking simple safety precautions such as making sure their kids wear helmets, ride only on smooth surfaces and avoid riding at night.
-
Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.
-
I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.
-
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!
