Allison Janney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love Twitter.
-
A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
-
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
-
I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
-
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
-
Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
-
The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
-
I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
-
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
-
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
-
I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
-
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
-
I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
-
I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.
-
It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
-
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
-
I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
-
You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.
-
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.
-
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
-
I did a severe amount of plays in high school. I was in every single show that my drama club produced. Then in the summer I would do plays, and I was also playing sports. I was probably a hellish kid, come to think of it, for my parents' schedule. But then I went to college in North Carolina.
-
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
-
Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.
