Bentley Little Quotes
His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
-
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
-
There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
-
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
-
It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
-
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
-
As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
-
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
-
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
-
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
-
When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
-
I really am a woman at peace.
-
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
-
God is decisively drawn to the humble.
-
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
-
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
-
I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
-
My home has always been show business.
-
I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
-
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
-
If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.
-
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
-
His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.
