Kate Winslet Quotes
I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?
Quotes to Explore
-
Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
-
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
-
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
-
Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
-
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
-
I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
-
What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
-
Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
-
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
-
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
-
For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
-
So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
-
Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
-
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
-
You are just your intelligence.
-
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
-
There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
-
My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
-
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
-
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
-
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
-
I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?
