Hattie McDaniel Quotes
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Quotes to Explore
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.
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I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.
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Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
