Ellen Barkin Quotes
I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
-
I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
-
'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
-
If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
-
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
-
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
-
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
-
Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
-
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
-
Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
-
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
-
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
-
Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
-
It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
-
Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
-
I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
-
If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.
-
It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.
-
The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good.
-
My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
-
I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger.
-
I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
