Ellen Gallagher Quotes
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
Quotes to Explore
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?
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I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.
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I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
