Jennifer Tilly Quotes

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

Jennifer Tilly

• Mother
• Hair
• Classy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • You
  • Hair

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Always
  • More

• When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Future
  • Hair

• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Person

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Value
  • Hair
  • Unique

• When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Party
  • Style

• My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Bloom

• My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Mother
  • Democrat
  • Southern

• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Serious

• My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Mother
  • Sister
  • Snow

• I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Different
  • Power
  • College

• I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

  

  T. H. White
  • Lust

• I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People

• My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

  

  Jennifer Tilly
  • Mother
  • Hair
  • Classy