Eva Marie Saint Quotes

I had an agent once who wanted me to make many more movies. I said, 'I can't. I can only do one a year, if that. I have children, young children.' And he said, 'Well, I guess you won't be a superstar.' And I said, 'Well, I guess not.'

Eva Marie Saint

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• Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Military

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Children
  • Start

• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Children
  • Difference
  • Skin

• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children
  • Book
  • Difficult

• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Up
  • Children
  • Home

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Poets

• You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Comedy

• Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Children
  • Job
  • Come And Go

• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Children
  • Car
  • Drawing

• Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Women
  • Children
  • Nothing

• I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Children

• I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Movies
  • More
  • Watch

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Money

• May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Today

• And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.

  

  Lew Brown
  • Life
  • Free

• When you've displayed a weakness, you've displayed something a person can grab a hold of and attack you there. If you're not ashamed of it, who can make you feel bad about it? Nobody. If you make a mistake, at least you get to see them, identify them, acknowledge them and hopefully remedy them.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Bad
  • Mistake

• The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tragedies

• I had an agent once who wanted me to make many more movies. I said, 'I can't. I can only do one a year, if that. I have children, young children.' And he said, 'Well, I guess you won't be a superstar.' And I said, 'Well, I guess not.'

  

  Eva Marie Saint
  • Children
  • Movies
  • Superstar