Renee Olstead Quotes

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

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• 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

• Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Good
  • Important
  • Interesting

• Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • May
  • Way
  • Travel

• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Time
  • Past
  • Savage

• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Children
  • Teach
  • Teachers

• Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Home
  • Today
  • Technology

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Art
  • True
  • Happy

• As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Fans
  • Saying

• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Comedy

• Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • You
  • Director

• Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.

  

  Charles Palliser
  • World
  • Live
  • Trying

• I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.

  

  Bill Pullman

• Television is such an evolving medium.

  

  Chris Pratt

• Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • Laugh
  • Read

• My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Sad

• Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Control
  • Gun

• One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.

  

  Dylan Walsh
  • Great
  • Different
  • Movie

• Yeah loads of bruises and welts, usually around the hip, arse, thigh region and elbows. Elbows got knocked up big time, but it was so much fun. I hadn't done a meaty action film in seven or eight years, so it was fun to explore that aspect of storytelling again.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• You’re allowed to believe in a god. You’re allowed to believe unicorns live in your shoes for all I care. But the day you start telling me how to wear my shoes so I don’t upset the unicorns, I have a problem with you. The day you start involving the unicorns in making decisions for this country, I have a BIG problem with you.

  

  Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Problem

• I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Song

• Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

  

  Harsha Bhogle
  • Sport
  • Opponent

• When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

  

  Renee Olstead
  • Decision
  • Vegetarian
  • Shocked