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
  • Star
  • Beginning

• 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

• TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Decision
  • Actor
  • Films

• I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • People
  • Trust

• I spend around three hours on the track and two hours in the weight room, five or six days a week.

  

  Allyson Felix

• If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Good

• Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• 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