Lesley Manville Quotes

People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.

Lesley Manville

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Culture
  • Students
  • Clothing

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Appreciate

• I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Me
  • Cost
  • Customer

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Gay

• Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Act

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Power

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Want
  • Characters
  • Watch

• When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute, the world changed for me.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • World
  • Believe
  • Sleep

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

  

  James Heckman
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Theatre
  • Movies
  • Broadway

• People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • People
  • Long
  • School