Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes

If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

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• I feel fine as long I'm not running around.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Long
  • Running
  • Feel

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

  

  Vanity
  • Like
  • Making
  • Musical

• I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Money

• I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Doing

• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Picture
  • Honest

• I just want the fans to be happy, and if they're happy, I'm happy. And yes, most definitely, I am definitely a fan.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Happy
  • Fans

• You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Spiritual

• I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • You
  • Always
  • Timeless

• In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Child
  • Situation
  • Where

• Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Work
  • Success
  • Hard Work

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Question

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Doing
  • Misery
  • Don't Love

• In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • World
  • May
  • Food

• There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.

  

  Andy Weir
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Science

• With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • World
  • Great
  • Fun

• If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

  

  John Polanyi
  • People
  • Real
  • Experience

• I am reminded of the old court jester who was supposed to entertain his king with interesting stories and antics. He looked at the king who was lolling on his throne, a drunken, filthy rascal, doffed his cap and bells, and said with a mock gesture of obeisance, “O king, be loyal to the royal within you.” And so I say to you young people today, remember your heritage, and be loyal to that royal lineage that you have as members of the church and kingdom of God on the earth.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • People
  • Fun