Eva Amurri Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
-
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
-
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
-
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
-
I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
-
All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
-
I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
-
Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
-
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
-
My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.
-
One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
-
I started traveling, performing, doing photo shoots and working on new music. At the same time, I was juggling homework and trying not to miss out on too many experiences during my junior and senior years - like prom and graduation.
-
I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
-
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
-
If there's one thing, I've been pretty good at evaluating people.
-
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
-
The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
-
You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.
-
I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.
-
I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.
-
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
-
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.
-
What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you're snogging in the back seat.
-
My entire pregnancy with Major, I was nervous about enduring another long labor.
