Eve Ensler Quotes

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Eve Ensler

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• Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Deep
  • Acting

• Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • People
  • Born
  • Genius

• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • You
  • Special

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Security
  • Jeans
  • Followed

• If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Think
  • Language

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Way
  • You
  • Just

• As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • True
  • Three
  • Grunge

• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Always
  • Human

• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Fighting
  • Thrive

• There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Time
  • Someone
  • Impression

• We can continue down our current path, in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations; where politics is a zero-sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie - that’s one path. Or we can have the courage to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

  

  Bill Bradley

• What happened on 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' I was given a big budget and given too many choices, and I made a lot of mistakes and missteps early on until I squandered all that extra money. But then, once my back was up against the wall, I made what I consider a really good movie.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • World
  • Present
  • Intelligent

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Happiness
  • States

• My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Regret
  • Read

• Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Success
  • Happiness