Ornella Muti Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
-
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
-
The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
-
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
-
My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
-
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
-
'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
-
When you have girl children they torture you!
-
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.
-
The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
-
My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
-
There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.
-
I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
-
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
-
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
-
When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.
-
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
-
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
-
I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well.
-
I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
-
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: why would anyone want their children to be the brightest? Academia is a lonely world.
-
I was a very unique child.
-
Just have fun, and just play hard, and just practice a lot.
-
Relationships with children come first.
