Chris Evert Quotes

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Love
  • House
  • Just

• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Mean
  • Information

• You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • History
  • Past
  • You

• I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Really

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Hate

• Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • School
  • Left

• I have a lot of Republican friends.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Friends
  • Republican
  • Lot

• I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Real
  • Party
  • Clothes

• My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Father
  • Pretty

• While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Secret

• Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Decisions

• I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • Children
  • Why
  • Friends

• It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Ready

• Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Money
  • Famous
  • Liar

• In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but they have their own autonomy, a personality that is often a mystery to me.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Mystery

• Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Personality
  • Famous