Debbie Reynolds Quotes

People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!

Debbie Reynolds

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• I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Fall
  • Jam
  • Eleven

• J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Director

• I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Country
  • Me
  • Him

• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Day

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Night
  • Window
  • Early

• I am strictly against remaking a movie.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Remaking

• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • God
  • Job

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • You

• If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Like
  • Computer
  • Busy

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • City
  • Tradition

• There are a plenty of shots that I have been amazed by, but a lot of these shots are played because you have worn an iron mask. Take away the protection, and let me see if they play them. Don't forget that the past players did not have any protection.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • Past

• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Game
  • Change
  • Cards

• What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • People
  • Soul
  • Honesty

• People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.

  

  Martha Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • People
  • Mother
  • Daughter