Nancy Marchand Quotes

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

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• I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Chicago
  • Conservative

• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• This bikini made me a success.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Success
  • Me
  • Made

• Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Something

• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Best
  • Yourself

• I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • God
  • Men
  • Live

• I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Same
  • Sword

• Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Love
  • Me
  • Peace

• I like the effect drink has on me.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Me
  • Like
  • Drink

• How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Me
  • Inside
  • Citizen

• I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Mom

• 'Jurassic' is a legacy and a classic. Steven Spielberg created something pretty spectacular. It's actually really interesting, when I look at it, I ask, 'How has my life changed since being Lex?' And I can literally walk into just about any city in the world and people will know who I am.

  

  Ariana Richards
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • You
  • Government
  • Privilege

• I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movies
  • Internet
  • Radio

• Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

  

  Sam Farr
  • People
  • Peace
  • Government

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
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