Caitriona Balfe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
-
I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
-
I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
-
You can't just let nature run wild.
-
On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.
-
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
-
It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
-
Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
-
When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
-
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
-
Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
-
So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
-
I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
-
I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
-
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
-
I have a couple of friends who have gone pro in sports, and if you are off by an inch, it's an entire mindgame for the next week. That's how it works: like, your whole world is based around an inch. Being an actor, your whole world turns on an inch, too.
-
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
-
Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.
-
The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
-
It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
-
Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
