Peggy Whitson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
-
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
-
I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
-
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
-
It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
-
I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
-
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
-
I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
-
I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
-
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
-
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
-
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
-
I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
-
I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
-
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
-
A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
-
The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
-
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
-
Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
-
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
-
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
-
I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with … or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
-
We might as well give in to the tug of our spirits to explore this confounding and wondrous world. We might as well greet each other as endless pilgrims and bid each other well on our way. Because we're already on the road...
-
I think, just philosophically, we're made to explore.
