Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
Quotes to Explore
-
Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
-
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
-
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
-
I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
-
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
-
I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
-
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
-
I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
-
It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
-
I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
-
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
-
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
-
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
-
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
-
Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
-
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
-
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
-
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
-
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
-
Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.
-
The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those 'ones to tell the grandchildren' memories.
-
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.
-
I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
