Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

Michelle Pfeiffer

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• Reality
• Anticipation
• Hitting

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• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Game
  • Funny

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Human
  • Being Human

• We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Technology

• I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Hate
  • Argument
  • Europe

• I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Band
  • Christian
  • Religious

• It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music

• You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Time
  • Period

• In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Life
  • Music

• I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Food
  • Italian

• I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

  

  Brian Celio
  • Clever

• That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Business
  • Job
  • Guy

• I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Missing

• The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • May

• Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Words
  • Leadership
  • inspirational

• I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Fans
  • Records
  • Troubadours

• Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Missing

• A lot of times, you see everyone's highlight reels because of social media. You don't know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that's going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Time
  • Work

• If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

  

  Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Anticipation