Jacqueline de Ribes Quotes
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
-
Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
-
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
-
I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
-
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
-
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
-
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
-
I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
-
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
-
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
-
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
-
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
-
I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
-
I don't think anyone wants to be in a role forever.
-
I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I'll ride for four, five hours a day. So I'm on the move all the time, and I think that's the key. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. That's the law of physics.
-
I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.
-
Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.
-
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
