Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

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• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Long
  • Children

• When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Dream
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Home
  • Want
  • Eat

• Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Face

• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

• If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Long
  • You
  • Happen

• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Music
  • Mathematics
  • Perfume

• People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Think
  • Alone

• I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Kind
  • Creative

• I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Years
  • Been
  • Store

• Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Hand
  • Civilization
  • Go

• I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Together
  • True
  • Fashion

• The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Agree

• When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Time
  • Real
  • Family

• Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

  

  Lee Hall
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Existence

• Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Sacrifice

• We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Team
  • Fall
  • Winning

• Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

  

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald
  • Opportunity
  • Never
  • Bird

• When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh