Maggie Q Quotes

When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

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• I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Friend
  • Best

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Just

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Best

• Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Song
  • You

• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • YouTube
  • Myspace
  • Ton

• I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Faith

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm a darned good listener.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • Listener
  • Darned

• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Child
  • Acting

• My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed with science his whole life. Both my paternal grandparents were illiterate bamboo farmers, so he really worked his way up and then got a Ph.D., full ride and everything, from universities in America.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• I have tried to bring the family together. My father should have done it, and to some extent, I have succeeded.

  

  Claude Picasso
  • Family
  • Done
  • Together

• You don't hear much crosstalk on 'The Five.' When you try to make a point, the other person will back off.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Career

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus