Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

Elizabeth McGovern

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• Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
  • Money
  • Good Things

• Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Trust
  • Never
  • Hippie

• Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Work
  • Character
  • Loyalty

• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

  Becky G
  • House
  • Attention
  • Singing

• As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Winning

• I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Admire
  • Heroes

• I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Health
  • Day
  • Yoga

• I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

  

  Dane Cook
  • God
  • Love
  • Career

• I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Movie

• You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Career
  • Rest

• Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Compromise

• I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Single
  • Day
  • Find

• If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Free
  • Violence

• New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God

• Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• The relation of word to thought, and the creation of new concepts is a complex, delicate and enigmatic process unfolding in our soul.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Soul

• Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Music
  • Together
  • Happy

• That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • War
  • Development
  • Direction

• I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.'

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Past
  • Hurt
  • Goals

• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

  

  Robert Frost
  • True
  • Writer
  • Reader

• The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern