Katherine Helmond Quotes

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

Katherine Helmond

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Never

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Israel
  • Hatred
  • Decade

• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
  • Things
  • Reveal

• Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Sometimes
  • Movies
  • Superhero

• I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • Peace
  • Government

• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Long
  • Said
  • Difference

• I am not afraid to go to jail.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Afraid
  • Jail

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • People
  • Work
  • Die

• I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • You
  • Never
  • Losing

• The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Worry
  • Less

• Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Believe
  • Advice
  • Mirrors

• You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Catch
  • Not Think
  • Old Birds

• The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'

  

  Bill Buford
  • Up
  • Why
  • Morning

• One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Done
  • Why
  • Worry

• I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

  

  Katherine Helmond
  • Important
  • Family
  • Why