Melanie Scrofano Quotes

As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.

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• My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Quiet

• In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Money
  • Military
  • Year

• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Moral
  • Away

• Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Creative

• I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Face
  • Really
  • Coin

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Happiness

• I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Day
  • Air

• It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Run

• Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Change
  • Simple
  • Progress

• Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
  • Facts

• The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Path
  • Face

• It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Friends
  • Age
  • City

• I'm really grateful to my fans - to all the people who support me.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Support
  • Grateful

• Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • God
  • Long
  • Culture

• The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Connection
  • Material

• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Late

• The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• There was a period when I really had to ask myself, 'What does acting mean to me?' I'm not someone who's content being famous, with that whole lifestyle. I had to realize I could find a balance between what I like to do and what people think you're 'supposed' to do as an actress.

  

  Lecy Goranson
  • People
  • Period
  • Balance

• I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.

  

  Lucy Walker
  • People
  • Live
  • Inspiration

• When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Success

• At the end of the day, the Irvine Co. is slowly being transformed. Our long-term goal is to transform what was once an agricultural company to a development company, and to that, the next, final step is to create a large real estate investment company.

  

  Donald Bren
  • Long
  • Real

• The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Knowledge
  • Strange
  • Turning

• As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.

  

  Melanie Scrofano