Jasmine Tookes Quotes
I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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Brazil is on my side.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
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Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.
