Molly Ivins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
-
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
-
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
-
I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
-
I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
-
We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.
-
Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
-
We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
-
A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies, but a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed.
-
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.
-
I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
-
I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.
-
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
-
My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
-
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.
-
As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.
-
I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.
-
I do like things the way that I like them. But I'm trying not to be - I don't wanna be that way. I'm not a control freak; I wanna protect my agency. It's a weird question as a black woman.
-
I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.
-
In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.
-
Creativity is not talent but attitude.
-
Online, you play at being yourself.
-
Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
