Virginia Madsen Quotes

A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera, I'm playing characters that are more like myself, and I don't get to do a lot of real character work. But when you're doing animation, you are the very epitome of colorful characters. I think I'm just really into make believe.

Virginia Madsen

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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• President Obama has contempt for real money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • Money
  • President

• Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Doubt

• I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Story

• And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Really

• I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • Jesus Christ

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Universe

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Up
  • Real
  • Taken

• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Week

• Sed neque tam facilis res ulla est, quin ea primumdifficilis magis ad credendum constet, itemquenil adeo magnum neque tam mirabile quicquam,quod non paulatim minuant mirarier omnes.

  

  Lucretius

• I feel like I've been blessed with the ability to do what I do and I guess, I ultimately want to be remembered for being an out-and-out racer; just driving at the seat of my pants and doing it the right way and winning for the right reasons. The right values.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Winning
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Succeed
  • Finger
  • Bomb

• The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Work
  • Women
  • Moral

• Now in your inner mind, tell yourself, 'Every time I begin to worry, I will immediately think of something to be grateful for.' Repeat this enough times until you feel that your inner mind will automatically go into gratitude mode as soon as it's aware that it's in worry mode.

  

  Zelig Pliskin
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Worry

• A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera, I'm playing characters that are more like myself, and I don't get to do a lot of real character work. But when you're doing animation, you are the very epitome of colorful characters. I think I'm just really into make believe.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Real