Martine McCutcheon Quotes

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

Martine McCutcheon

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• I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • Today
  • Learning

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Power
  • Words

• When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Help
  • Care
  • Model

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Small
  • Friendship
  • Silly

• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Women
  • Morning
  • Myself

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • Asset

• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Me
  • Single
  • Pleasure

• Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Life
  • Important
  • My Life

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Power and speed be hands and feet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • Hands
  • Feet

• I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Like
  • Something
  • Sell

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Historian
  • Interpretation
  • Dramatist

• The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

  

  James Payn
  • Live
  • Respect

• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Good
  • Never

• I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • Energy
  • Bold

• Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you're making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you'd never know.

  

  Billy Burke
  • Different
  • Movie

• It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

  

  Lionel Blue

• I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Different
  • Done
  • Theatre