Lela Loren Quotes

Now, everyone has their talents, but working with props is not one of mine.

Lela Loren

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• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Real
  • Change
  • Action

• I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Young
  • Will
  • Anything

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Know
  • White
  • Blues

• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • You
  • Woman
  • Show

• Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Acting

• In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Death

• My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Day
  • Camera

• Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Quiet
  • Shy

• I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Footage

• It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Long
  • Television
  • Blessing

• I've actually never played a time traveler, for all the time travelling movies I've done.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Done
  • Movies

• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Children
  • Integrity

• Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Things

• It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Song
  • Play
  • Muddy Waters

• When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom - because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Heart

• You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

  

  Homer
  • War
  • Afraid
  • Risk Of Death

• Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.

  

  Connie Britton

• Now, everyone has their talents, but working with props is not one of mine.

  

  Lela Loren