Virginia Madsen Quotes

Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.

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• That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Old
  • Now
  • Hollywood

• It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religious
  • Speech
  • Charming

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kind
  • Hollywood
  • Fail

• I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Trying
  • Balance
  • Hollywood

• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Hollywood
  • Italy

• I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Yoga
  • Speech
  • Working Hard

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Hollywood
  • Observation

• Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Enough
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Me
  • Forever

• In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Suffering
  • Texas
  • Hollywood

• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hollywood

• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

  

  Ovid
  • Tears
  • Speech
  • Weight

• You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Why
  • Think
  • Know

• Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Done
  • Think
  • Myself

• I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Country
  • Proud

• Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

  

  Confucius
  • Speech
  • Neighbors
  • Barbarians

• When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Firsts
  • Shows
  • Devil

• When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Accepted
  • Theaters

• There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Fly
  • Clouds

• Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Jobs
  • Firsts
  • Hollywood