Bonnie Bedelia Quotes
I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
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As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.
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My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
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Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
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I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!
