Ellen Greene Quotes
I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.
Quotes to Explore
-
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
-
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
-
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
-
I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
-
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
-
Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
-
I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
-
If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
-
The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
-
I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
-
For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
-
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
-
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
-
I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
-
In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
-
I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
-
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
-
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
-
There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.
-
I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.
-
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
-
In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.
-
I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.
