Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

Mary-Louise Parker

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• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Education
  • Day

• If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • Gift

• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Day

• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Time
  • Men
  • Law

• I love acting.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Love
  • Acting
  • I Love

• Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Decide

• Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Technology
  • Poverty
  • Impact

• I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • See
  • I See

• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Silly

• What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Today
  • Want
  • Period

• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Man
  • Dangerous
  • Creature

• Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that the technology actually drives either cost reduction or superior strategy execution.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Relationship
  • Technology
  • Management

• I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Good
  • Waiting

• Young people of every continent, do not be afraid to be the saints of the new millennium! Be contemplative, love prayer; be coherent with your faith and generous in the service of your brothers and sisters, be active members of the Church and builders of peace.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • People
  • Faith
  • Peace

• Get bored with your past, it's over!

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Past
  • Bored

• I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Music

• I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt... I love it.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker