Nathan Lane Quotes

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood

• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Bisexual

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Unhappy

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Influence

• Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Commitment

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Thought
  • Younger
  • Retiring

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Up
  • Exercise

• You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Guy

• She felt like a juggler tossing torches into the air. The circus-master kept throwing more in. Sooner or later, one would fall, and the life she'd built would burn to cinders.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Life
  • She
  • Torches

• Every day you learn something new.

  

  Dennis Brown

• I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Happy
  • Church