Felicity Huffman Quotes

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Felicity Huffman

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• Living

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • School
  • Day
  • Sick

• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Strong
  • Dead
  • Older

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movie
  • Question
  • Exercise

• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Want
  • Myself
  • China

• We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Woman

• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Party
  • Eyes

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• I don't have business with any politicians.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Politicians
  • Any

• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Community
  • View

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Name

• I had an amazing childhood.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Amazing
  • Childhood
  • Had

• Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Me
  • Years
  • Finish

• Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

  

  Hal David
  • Emotion
  • Try
  • Others

• We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Responsibility
  • Need
  • Take

• I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Long

• I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

  

  Avi
  • Book
  • American
  • Author

• Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

  

  Rachel Grady
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Film
  • Balance
  • Beauty