Henry Czerny Quotes

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

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• 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

• 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 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

• To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Way

• I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Fact

• 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

• Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • Heart
  • Love

• Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • God
  • Faith

• As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Single
  • Economic
  • Consequence

• Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

  

  Plato
  • Danger
  • Atheism
  • Acknowledgement

• I think Seth McFarlane is brilliant, and I think 'Family Guy' should get an Emmy for sure.

  

  Rekha Sharma
  • Family
  • Brilliant
  • Sure

• I don't think he's worn all of them at the same time.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Don't Think
  • Worn

• The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Trying
  • Needs
  • Speak

• I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

  

  Henry Czerny
  • Roles
  • Simplistic