Allison Janney Quotes

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

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• I landed the female lead role on 'Chuck' within three days of landing in L.A., so it was a little overwhelming, and I definitely felt like I got thrown into the deep end.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Deep
  • End
  • Lead

• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • End
  • Look

• Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Death
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Want
  • You
  • Working Hard

• Everything has positive and negative consequences.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Action
  • Style
  • Eye

• Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

  

  Manika
  • Up
  • Free
  • Growing

• I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Music
  • Happy

• The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Wall
  • Street
  • Blockchain

• I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Life
  • Family
  • Experience

• The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Player
  • Wall
  • Media

• We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Country
  • Mean
  • United States

• I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Study

• I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Me
  • Find
  • Warmth

• I interact with my fans mostly through Twitter, and I like to do livestreams about every two weeks, where I say, 'Ask me anything!' and I just sit there with my computer for 15 minutes, taking a break from work, and answering their questions.

  

  Becky G
  • Work
  • Fans
  • Twitter

• It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Why
  • History
  • Movie

• I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Different
  • History

• As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.

  

  John Burnside
  • City
  • Question
  • Catholic

• It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

  

  Abe Ajay
  • Risk
  • Search
  • Involved

• Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Like
  • Company
  • Build

• True beauty is always oddly surprising.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • True

• An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

  

  Allison Janney