Joan Caulfield Quotes

I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

Joan Caulfield

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• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Man
  • Food
  • Meat

• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • You
  • More

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

  

  Kate Burton
  • School
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Been

• My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Age
  • Me
  • Dad

• I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Different
  • Film

• I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Work
  • Education
  • Myself

• I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Drug
  • Congress
  • Members

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Bad
  • Worry
  • Name

• I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Job

• I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Always
  • Chess
  • Take

• I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Character
  • Like
  • Trump

• I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Live
  • Best
  • Thing

• When I came to University of California, San Francisco to work on infectious disease, I looked around to different options, and malaria was particularly interesting and fascinating to me. It's amazing that after 100 years of study of this little parasite, we've not been able to effectively control it.

  

  Joseph DeRisi
  • Control
  • Study
  • Malaria

• And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

  

  Jason Statham
  • World
  • Great
  • Experience

• I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • People
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• I've been approached by a couple of people who've recognized me from 'Jack Reacher.' It's great... when the feedback's positive. I don't know if I look forward to the day when I can't go out and get a cup of coffee. I kinda hope that day never happens.

  

  Jai Courtney
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

  

  Joan Caulfield