Melanie Laurent Quotes

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

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• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • God
  • Live
  • Alone

• When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Drive

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Old
  • Award
  • Honoured

• I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Universe

• It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Always
  • Underestimate

• I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Experience
  • Genius
  • Brainy

• When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Bad

• My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Respect

• The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Friends
  • Year
  • Him

• I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Eyes

• To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Real
  • Society

• A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• There are at the present time two great nations in the world-allude to the Russians and the Americans- All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding-along a path to which no limit can be perceived.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Washington newspaper men know everything.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Men

• You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Wonder

• A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Feeling

• The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Marriage
  • Ruined
  • Alcoholism

• I'm not one of these actors who's rolling in money.

  

  Drea De Matteo
  • Money

• I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Country
  • Book
  • Beginning

• I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

  

  Melanie Laurent