Virginia Madsen Quotes

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

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• Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
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  • Training

• I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Things
  • Really

• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
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  • You
  • Technology

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Time
  • Play
  • Find

• I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Different
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Single

• There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

  

  Taylor Hicks
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  • Family

• Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • You
  • Fame

• Kids hate anyone who is different.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Hate

• I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Different
  • Soccer

• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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  • Never
  • Coaches

• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Up
  • Different

• I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Play
  • Sports

• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Different
  • Political
  • Science

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Live
  • Food
  • Stop

• Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Life
  • Friendship

• I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Fights

• I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Why
  • Alone

• If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Parents
  • Universe

• Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

  

  Virginia Madsen
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