Katherine Parkinson Quotes
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
Quotes to Explore
-
There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
-
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
-
He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
-
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
-
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
-
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
-
I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
-
Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
-
These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
-
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
-
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
-
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
-
I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
-
I look a lot like my father and his mother.
-
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
-
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
-
T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
-
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
-
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
-
That's it? That's your big goodbye?" Eve asked. Claire looked at Eve mystified. "I think I need guy CliffNotes." "Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffNotes." "What were you waiting for, flowery poetry?" Shane snorted. "I hugged. I'm done.
-
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
-
I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
-
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
-
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
