Deborah Mailman Quotes
Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
-
I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
-
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
-
The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
-
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
-
Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
-
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
-
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
-
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
-
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
-
No man may make another free.
-
There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
-
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
-
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
-
By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
-
Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
-
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
-
When I work, I like to just kind of stay quiet, stay to myself. I like to walk around a lot and figure out what's gonna happen in the scene and try to get my head straight.
-
When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.
-
I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.
-
How can one know anything at all about people?
-
Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.
