Rebecca De Mornay Quotes
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
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My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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The highlight of my career was being at the inaugural gala of Ronald Reagan, and I owe that to Mr. Sinatra.
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Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
