Jill Clayburgh Quotes

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

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• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Me
  • Actress
  • Stereotype

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • World
  • Effect
  • Buddhism

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• One rose says more than the dozen.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • More
  • Rose
  • Than

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Live
  • Friend
  • Child

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Car
  • Favorite

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Exercise
  • Matter

• I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.

  

  Jason Dohring
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • America
  • Night
  • Car

• There's nothing I hate more than going to see a movie and thinking, 'That could have been an hour shorter.'

  

  Joe Russo
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Hate

• A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Men
  • Spiritual
  • Vision

• At her station in life, wisdom dictated keeping a low profile.And yet...

  

  David Brin
  • Life
  • Wisdom

• A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

  

  Jill Clayburgh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Tears