Kristen Johnston Quotes

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

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• Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Football
  • Fitness

• Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Team

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Dog
  • Human
  • Acting

• Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Home
  • Chance
  • Inspiration

• You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Basketball

• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • World
  • Surprise

• He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Wisdom
  • Glass
  • Crystal

• I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Thought

• Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Honesty
  • Wonderful

• I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Money
  • Me
  • Stupid

• I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Guy

• There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Actor
  • Actress
  • Between

• There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Wish

• There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • History
  • Party

• Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Men

• There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • People
  • Life
  • Choices

• My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Parents

• How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening?

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Trying
  • Strong

• I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

  

  George Washington
  • Party
  • Spirit
  • Danger

• I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Environment
  • Cancer
  • Hunger

• I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • People
  • Together
  • Technology

• It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out.

  

  Keiichi Tsuchiya
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Make

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston