Natalie Massenet Quotes
When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
Quotes to Explore
-
Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
-
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
-
I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
-
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
-
When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
-
When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
-
I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
-
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
-
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
-
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
-
I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
-
I just want to sit in my room and write books.
-
I don't feel closeted.
-
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
-
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
-
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
-
I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
-
Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
-
To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
-
That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.
-
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
-
I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.
-
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
-
When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
