JoBeth Williams Quotes

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

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• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Interesting
  • Taken
  • Regret

• Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Knows

• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Book
  • Free

• I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Style
  • Moving
  • Whatever

• Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Well
  • University
  • Graduate

• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Want
  • Wisdom
  • Always

• I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Art
  • American
  • Beautiful

• When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Better
  • Door
  • Just Because

• Police can only act on intelligence.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Police
  • Intelligence
  • Only

• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Feels

• I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Why
  • Freedom
  • Moving

• Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Relationships
  • Personal
  • No comments

• Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• 'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Boy

• There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • People
  • Dark
  • Lonely

• Unfortunately, considering that we Latinos are really big for movie companies when they have blockbuster releases or new cable shows, when it comes to the dynamic of supporting our own product, it leaves much to be desired.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Movie

• When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

  

  JoBeth Williams
  • Movie