Vidya Balan Quotes
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
Quotes to Explore
-
I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
-
Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
-
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
-
I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
-
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
-
The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
-
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
-
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
-
To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
-
I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
-
It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
-
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
-
My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
-
Fashion is one big family.
-
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
-
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
-
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
-
As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
-
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
-
As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.
-
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
-
I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.
-
I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever
-
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
