Alison Mosshart Quotes

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

Alison Mosshart

• Life
• Hate

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Kid

• I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Happy
  • Gay
  • Boat

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
  • Search
  • Others

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Party
  • Belief
  • Facts

• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Real
  • Heart

• I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Love
  • Girl

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Will
  • Caring
  • Walk

• One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Characters

• With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Help
  • Technology

• I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • People
  • Life
  • Competition

• The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.

  

  Dan Inosanto
  • Life
  • Love
  • Goal

• I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • Life
  • Films
  • Pristine

• If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

  

  Alison Mosshart
  • Life
  • Hate