Jill Greenberg Quotes
I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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I could never sit down and write jokes.
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If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
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I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
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I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.
