Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes
The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I love football, football is my life.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
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I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.
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The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.
