Vicki Lawrence Quotes
It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
Quotes to Explore
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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I need to work to feel well.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.
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Very rarely I create things and feel like I don't want to recreate them in a live setting. It's a completely different world, but at the same time that's where I've always come from. Enjoying that give-and-take from a live audience, there's a large part of me that's looking forward to it, and creating that relationship again.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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My signature is like a squished spider.
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As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
