Taissa Farmiga Quotes
I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
-
I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
-
I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
-
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
-
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
-
There has to be a global mission of human progress.
-
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
-
I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
-
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
-
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
-
Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
-
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
-
I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
-
Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
-
Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
-
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
-
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
-
But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
-
I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.
-
I did a history degree once.
-
Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
-
I hate it [driving] more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things (parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage). Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror.
-
I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.
