Ellen Gallagher Quotes
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
-
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
-
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.
-
I need to meet people to be able to write.
-
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.
-
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
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.
-
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
-
One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
-
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
-
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
-
The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
-
I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
-
TV is the place that writers want to be.
-
You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.
-
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
