Maxine Peake Quotes

I love hoovering. People go to therapists; I've got a Hoover.

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• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Trying
  • American
  • Environment

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Day
  • Mom

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Girls

• America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • War
  • Tax

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Insulting

• I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Painting
  • New York

• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Worth
  • Dime

• As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

  

  Jan Schakowsky

• It's a film called 'Bobby,' ... It's about the day that Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel, and it takes place at the Ambassador. It's essentially about a cross-section of various people from all walks of life, at that hotel on that day, all leading up to his speech and him being assassinated.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

  

  Lele Pons
  • People
  • School
  • High

• If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

  

  Aristotle
  • Way
  • Better
  • Natures

• I love hoovering. People go to therapists; I've got a Hoover.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • People