Suzanne Pleshette Quotes

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding.

Suzanne Pleshette

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• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • God
  • Know
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Me
  • Single
  • Pleasure

• Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Focus
  • Better
  • New

• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chicken

• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Respect
  • Show

• Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Want
  • You
  • Movies

• It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • Control

• I wanted passionately to be a priest.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Wanted
  • Priest
  • Passionately

• You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Me
  • Soccer

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Causes

• It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Art
  • Photography

• I am totally unattached to material items.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Material
  • Unattached

• Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Important
  • Sports
  • Politics

• Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Today
  • Things
  • Modern

• It’s sad when people are stupid.

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Sad

• In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • America
  • Future
  • Path

• My grandmother, in her retirement home, actually has a picture of me from 'Star' magazine on their fashion police list. I think that's hilarious, but if Grandma approves, then I feel like I am all good.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Good
  • Home
  • Fashion

• Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Gold

• I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Song

• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Never
  • Fair

• I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding.

  

  Suzanne Pleshette
  • Career
  • Star
  • Illusion