Laurie Metcalf Quotes

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

Laurie Metcalf

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• I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Single
  • Hair
  • Never

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Desire
  • Thought
  • Quitting

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• You are never really prepared for criticism.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Criticism
  • Prepared

• The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Day
  • Last

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Father

• At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Job
  • America
  • First

• It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Science
  • Early
  • Late

• I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

  

  LaToya London
  • Great
  • American
  • Career

• What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Child
  • Professional
  • Tantrums

• I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Kids
  • Society

• I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice

• In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords

• You ask yourself 'What is love? Am I in love?', when what you should be asking is, 'What is not love?', ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Done

• Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

  

  David Horowitz
  • America

• It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

  

  Anne Parillaud
  • Live
  • She
  • Wonder

• When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Different

• It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Mind
  • Enough
  • Should

• Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Blind
  • Pitch
  • Park

• I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

  

  Laurie Metcalf