Elizabeth Mitchell Quotes
I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.
Quotes to Explore
-
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
-
If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
-
He who gives love, receives love.
-
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
-
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
-
I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
-
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
-
Home is where your rump rests.
-
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
-
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
-
For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
-
I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
-
When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
-
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
-
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
-
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
-
I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
-
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
-
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
-
People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.
-
'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.
-
I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.
