Cedric Hardwicke (Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke) Quotes

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Cedric Hardwicke

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Level
  • Waste

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Need
  • Trouble
  • Bank

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Men
  • May
  • Words

• Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Friend
  • Followers
  • Paranoia

• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Comedians

• I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Resolution

• I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Feel

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • See
  • Hard
  • Discouraged

• I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Movie
  • Happy
  • Nice

• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Moving
  • Down
  • Slow

• What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Soul
  • Dream

• I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

  

  Steven Hatfill
  • Government
  • Proud
  • Service

• I've always been a fan of the VMAs, and I've always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.

  

  DJ Khaled

• When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • God
  • Way

• There's that effect that is very physical, very down there at the synaptic level, which really means microscopic cellular level, but also molecular level, because all of those structures are operating on an electrochemical basis and so the changes there are very important.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Important
  • Molecular
  • Microscopic

• I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

  

  Cedric Hardwicke
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Feelings