Virginia Madsen Quotes

I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

Virginia Madsen

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• Villain

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• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Work
  • Free
  • Resume

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Environmental

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Enjoy

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Need
  • Belief
  • Heroes

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • New
  • Going
  • Intern

• Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Thinking
  • Gay
  • Magic

• Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Way
  • Fashion
  • Ideas

• When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."

  

  Viola Davis
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Writing
  • Poverty

• I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

  

  Catullus
  • Writing
  • Youth
  • Access

• I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Writing
  • Evil
  • Female