Joan Collins Quotes

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

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• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • Over

• I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Future
  • Evolution
  • Depend

• Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Think
  • Shy

• It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Effort
  • Feel
  • Performance

• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Reality
  • Like
  • Corner

• I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Good
  • Fun
  • I Can

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Causes

• What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Funny
  • Genius
  • Realize

• Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Walking
  • India

• When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Media

• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • School
  • Father
  • Society

• On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Ambition
  • Scale

• Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Small
  • Economy

• There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Destiny

• I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Power
  • Death

• When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

  

  Bob Woodward

• I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.

  

  James Ransone
  • Why
  • Friends

• I love Comic Con.

  

  Megan Fox

• It's really exciting to have a conference like this in the western part of the state. We've got VC leaders from as far away as the west coast and entrepreneurs from around the Southeast lined up to participate. Whether you're interested in just sharpening your business and selling skills, or looking for serious capital, this conference is for you.

  

  Mark Owen Take That
  • State
  • Conference
  • Western part

• I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Road

• One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

  

  Joan Collins