Betty Gilpin Quotes

There's not a ton of roles out there for the insecure, loud Britney Spears type.

Betty Gilpin

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• I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Baby
  • My Life

• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Think

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Flowers
  • Fruit
  • Too Late

• Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Give

• I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Heart

• I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Start

• I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • School
  • Business

• The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Life
  • Different
  • Relationship

• When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Writing
  • Children
  • School

• Modern morality is all about perception.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Perception
  • Modern
  • Morality

• Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Man
  • Here
  • Wants

• There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Question

• I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Know
  • Ideas
  • Thought

• My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • People
  • Memory
  • Discussion

• The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Man
  • Religion

• If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Friend
  • Find
  • Looking

• When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Painter
  • Between
  • Abstract

• Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

  

  Mark Victor Hansen
  • Confidence
  • Waiting
  • Courage

• The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Important
  • Society
  • Environment

• There's not a ton of roles out there for the insecure, loud Britney Spears type.

  

  Betty Gilpin