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
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• 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
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• 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
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  • 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

• Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, 'No, because I'm afraid it wouldn't look good and wouldn't come back curly.'

  

  Carrot Top
  • Hair
  • Looks
  • Asks

• I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I like the type of music that can make my heart beat and the melody that makes me high but this type of music isn't popular in Korea.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Music
  • Heart

• The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

  

  Richard Neal
  • People
  • Complicated
  • Monstrosity

• In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston