Elliot Page Quotes

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

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• When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • College

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Beginning
  • Star

• Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Need
  • Once
  • Awhile

• I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Work
  • Control
  • I Can

• My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Favorite
  • Go

• For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Women
  • Show

• I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Responsibility
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• I don't want to have so many exes.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Many

• I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Before

• I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Reading
  • Loved

• If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Understanding
  • Try
  • Seeing

• Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • People
  • Truth
  • Desire

• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Dream
  • Child
  • Broken

• Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Revolution

• Honestly, I'm as rebellious as I used to be and my definition of shaking things up isn't what it used to be.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up

• Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Happy

• Reality is on a delay. For you, nothing is now. Realizing this fact is unsettling. If we can only react to the past, how do we manage to navigate the present? It's easy to spiral into a treatise on free will while in the fetal position, overthinking our forever past.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Reality
  • Free
  • Past

• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Me
  • Working
  • Interest

• I think there are real dangers to escalating military conflict with ISIS, and we need to be aware of them. But at the same time, you have to understand, you know, that this whole thing started with Bashar al-Assad and how he is the one who continued to escalate against the people of Syria who were trying to get democratic reform.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I have never been a 'hair person.' Growing up, my mom and my sister, who loved to get their hair done, would always give me a hard time about not getting mine done.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Imagination
  • Study
  • Language

• I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

  

  Elliot Page