Katherine Helmond Quotes

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

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• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

  

  Paloma Faith
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  • Daily
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• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
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• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.

  

  Sam Graves
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• In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

  

  Becki Newton
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• A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

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• I'm very unorganized.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

  

  Kate Moss
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• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job.

  

  Johnny Depp
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• What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

  

  Mal Peet
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• Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • People
  • Help
  • Powerful

• I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

  

  Lauren Miller
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• Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Suffering

• Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

  

  Katherine Helmond
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