Alexa Hirschfeld Quotes
The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
-
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
-
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
-
The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
-
You must always do what you feel is right.
-
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
-
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
-
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
-
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
-
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
-
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
-
China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
-
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
-
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
-
'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
-
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
-
I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
-
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
-
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
-
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
-
In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.
-
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
-
I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.
-
The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.
