Jenna McCarthy Quotes
When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
-
To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
-
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
-
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
-
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
-
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
-
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
-
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
-
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
-
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
-
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
-
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
-
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
-
If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
-
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
-
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
-
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
-
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
-
I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.
-
I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.
-
Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
-
I looked down on a quilt of clouds, bordered on the horizon by the blood-orange streaks of the setting sun. As the steady hum of the engine drowned out the chatter around me, I realized that I would probably be thinking about the implications of Watergate for the rest of my life. For the country, and for me it had been a significant point in time. (page 263)
-
Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!
-
When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
