Evelyn Keyes Quotes

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

Evelyn Keyes

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• I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Important
  • Point
  • Actress

• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Hand
  • Cat

• Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

  

  La India
  • Life
  • Women
  • Admit

• I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Most
  • Admit

• I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Lucky
  • Admit

• I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • Peace
  • Admit

• I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Principle
  • Patriotic
  • Admit

• I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Always
  • Year
  • Actress

• I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Admit
  • Plato

• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Movie
  • Model
  • Become

• That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Actress

• I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Art
  • Want
  • Me

• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Never
  • Leader
  • Admit

• There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Ready
  • Actress
  • Hits

• I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Time
  • Model
  • Place

• We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Universe
  • Courage
  • Admit

• [When asked about the best actresses from the current crop] There's Rani, then there's Preity, Based on work, Aishwarya... Priyanka is very good... Then there are the new girls like Lara and Katrina. [When asked his favorite and the best out the lot] As an actor? Rani Mukerji. [Smiles]

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Actor

• To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Music
  • God
  • Happy

• I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Direct

• My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Love
  • Cool
  • Winter

• I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kind

• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• I feel so honored to be a mom and get to do something that women have done for thousands of years.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Women
  • Done
  • Mom

• I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

  

  Evelyn Keyes
  • Actress
  • Achieved
  • Admit