Drea De Matteo Quotes

I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.

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• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Good
  • Think
  • Carpenter

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Great
  • Love
  • Mum

• Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Dead
  • Killed

• Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Neighbor
  • Tall

• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Know
  • Style
  • Year

• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Alone
  • Literature
  • Often

• We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Young
  • Leaving

• Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • School
  • Fun
  • Child

• Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Why
  • Choose

• Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Up
  • Different
  • Single

• I don't care if my opponents are cheating or not.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Cheating

• And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

  

  Christo
  • City

• I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Mind
  • America

• I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Night
  • Cool

• Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.

  

  Alexander Crum Brown
  • Language
  • Mathematics
  • Chemist

• I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

  

  Alan J. Pakula
  • Work
  • Important
  • Trying

• Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Done

• I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.

  

  Drea De Matteo