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
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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.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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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.
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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.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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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.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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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.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.
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Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
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Where there’s dope, there’s hope!
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To me, if we're not failing a little bit, we're not trying hard enough. I think great cultures encourage risk and are tolerant of failure. If you don't do that, you're going to end up with a culture that is stagnant and not thinking about the next generation of products and experiences.
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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!
