Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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• I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Man
  • Strength
  • Percent

• A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Reality
  • Take

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my 'Criminal Minds' family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Time
  • Family
  • Future

• If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Commitment

• My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Mom
  • Child
  • Acting

• When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Nice

• You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Business
  • Strong

• As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Time

• A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Beautiful
  • Fool
  • Shoes

• I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Believe

• Life's a pitch, then you buy.

  

  Billy Mays
  • Life

• The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy.

  

  Cheryl James
  • People
  • Life
  • Crazy

• What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc audiences around the country.

  

  Yance Ford
  • Country

• My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

  

  Future
  • Music
  • Experience

• Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a company, doing a lead role one week, a small part the next. That's what I thought I was going to be.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Life
  • House
  • Small

• I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Terror

• My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Responsibility
  • Grandmother
  • Democratic Party

• Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Great
  • Professional

• There is a Beautiful Magic to This Whole Music Business.

  

  Isaac Slade The Fray
  • Music
  • Business
  • Magic

• I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'

  

  Eva Green
  • Ambition
  • Hollywood
  • Actress

• I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones