Betsey Johnson Quotes
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
-
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
-
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
-
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
-
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
-
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
-
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
-
I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
-
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
-
I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
-
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
-
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
-
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
-
I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
-
I love Japan; it's very special.
-
We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
-
I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
-
Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.
-
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
-
The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.
-
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
-
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
