Mary Astor Quotes
The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don't have time!
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Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
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At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.
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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
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The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'
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The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
