Ruth Gordon Quotes

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

Ruth Gordon

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• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Personally
  • Lean
  • Lyrically

• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Night
  • Dinner
  • Fresh

• I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Think
  • Problem

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Career
  • Respect

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Woman

• I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Good
  • Always

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Smart
  • Born
  • Meaning

• Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Attention
  • Boys
  • Dating

• Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Men
  • Body
  • Down

• People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Body

• I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • House
  • Dad

• Fair use is not in the law.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Law

• In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Control
  • First
  • Standards

• A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

  

  Alice Miller
  • World
  • Mother
  • Feeling

• Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

  

  Plato
  • Power
  • Trouble
  • Philosophers

• Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Fall
  • Moving
  • Speak

• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Should
  • U.S.
  • Difficulties

• Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Talent