Eva Longoria Quotes

You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

Eva Longoria

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• I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Me

• I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Never
  • Broken
  • Clothes

• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Mind
  • You
  • Happiest

• Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Men
  • Business

• It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Stupid
  • Inside

• I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Culture

• I'm always going to be a singer.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Singers

• You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Past
  • Problems
  • Jump

• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Rely

• And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Less

• I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Up
  • Done
  • Energy

• I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Trying
  • Wells
  • Get Well

• I went to public school up until junior high.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?

  

  Carrot Top
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Said

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Organization
  • Roles
  • Envisioning

• Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Roles
  • Feminine
  • Socially

• You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Roles