Paula Poundstone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
-
There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
-
The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
-
I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
-
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
-
The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
-
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
-
I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
-
Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
-
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
-
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
-
I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
-
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
-
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
-
I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
-
But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
-
A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
-
None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
-
I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
-
The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
-
Some guys are gym fighters, some guys are better in the ring.
-
The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.
-
I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.
-
I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.
