Katori Hall Quotes

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

Katori Hall

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
  • Women
  • Look

• What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Myself

• Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Home
  • Like
  • Heels

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Privacy
  • Behind

• I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • You
  • My Life

• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Want
  • Design
  • Building

• A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Governance

• My version of makeup is a really intense skin regimen. I just think it's a healthier way to look at beauty.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Beauty
  • Look
  • Makeup

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Done
  • Want
  • Find

• When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Project
  • Directing

• I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Character
  • Interesting

• My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Age
  • Night

• Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Long
  • Passion

• I'm comfortable and confident about the future.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Future
  • Confident
  • About

• The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'

  

  John Schneider
  • Good
  • Baby
  • October

• The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Hearts
  • Discover
  • Willingness

• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Think
  • First
  • Very

• My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Childhood

• He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Perfect
  • Cool
  • Smart

• I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

  

  Katori Hall