Doris Roberts Quotes

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

Doris Roberts

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• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Understand

• Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Theatre
  • Actor
  • Wings

• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Day
  • Like
  • Florida

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

  

  Sai Baba
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want

• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Actor
  • Studied
  • Lee Strasburg

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Writing
  • Kid
  • Even

• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Remember
  • Jesus

• I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Lost

• Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Successful

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Woman

• Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Different
  • Home
  • Stealing

• Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Process
  • Filmmaking
  • Editing

• I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Manipulation

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Why
  • Day

• I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Important
  • Mind
  • History

• I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Up
  • Hair

• I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

  

  Jenn Proske
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• My memory's bad!

  

  Jeremy Sumpter
  • Bad

• You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

  

  Doris Roberts
  • Why
  • Car