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

• 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

• 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

• I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

  

  Mary Lou Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

  

  Chris Cubas

• I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Art

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • Up
  • Sweet
  • Chocolate

• I applaud Chomsky's willingness to take a stand.

  

  Bruce Harwood

• I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Atheist

• 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