Cara Buono Quotes
I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
Quotes to Explore
-
Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
-
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
-
I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
-
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
-
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
-
I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
-
Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
-
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
-
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
-
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
-
I always have bananas with me for energy.
-
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
-
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
-
I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
-
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
-
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
-
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
-
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
-
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
-
When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts by 70 percent, you have a disaster.
-
You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
-
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
-
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
-
I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
