Wendy Whelan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
-
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
-
I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
-
When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'
-
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
-
I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
-
I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
-
I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.
-
My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
-
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
-
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
-
I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.
-
I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes.
-
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
-
If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then television.
-
The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.
-
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
-
Modern sport can be an ugly convergence of commerce and celebrity, but it still has the capacity to move a crowd.
-
When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.
-
I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
-
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance.
-
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
-
I liked the structure of ballet.
