Debbie Reynolds Quotes

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Debbie Reynolds

• Childhood

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Color

• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Real
  • School

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Today

• What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Day
  • Run
  • Push

• I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Memories

• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Politics
  • Stupidity

• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Philosophy

• There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Professional

• I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Stage
  • Public
  • Performances

• I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movies
  • Actor
  • Image

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Recovery

• I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Language
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine - A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,And all the flowers were mine.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Green

• I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Different

• We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Childhood