Victoria Pratt Quotes
Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
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To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.
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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
