Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

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• I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Marriage

• The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Reality
  • Stronger
  • Palestine

• In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

  

  Hans Frank
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
  • Free

• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Bother

• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Amazing
  • Like
  • Characters

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Doing
  • Shots
  • Visual

• I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Microphone

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Food

• I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Language

• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • House
  • Man
  • White

• People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Always
  • Look

• Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

  

  Eero Saarinen
  • Ideas
  • Confusion
  • Conflicting

• A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Child
  • More

• Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Model

• I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

  

  Bernard Sahlins
  • Character
  • Funny
  • City

• When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Different
  • Country

• I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Girl
  • Door