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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• If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Change

• 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

• Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Know
  • Loss

• 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

• A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Success

• 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

• As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Today
  • Church
  • Christian

• People must help one another; it is nature's law.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • People
  • Help
  • Nature

• I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Life
  • Up

• People buy products if they're better.

  

  James Dyson
  • People

• Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Work
  • Real
  • Respect

• It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Truth
  • Church

• 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