Miranda Cosgrove (Miranda Taylor Cosgrove) Quotes
I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
Quotes to Explore
-
I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
-
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
-
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
-
I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
-
We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
-
It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
-
Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
-
Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
-
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
-
You always learn something from mistakes.
-
I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
-
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
-
I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
-
Politicians are fond of criticizing others.
-
My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.
-
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
-
You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.
-
I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.
-
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
-
I have a passion for life that allows me to make the most of my days and fill them with work and play.
-
I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
