Allison Janney Quotes

I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Looks
  • Constitution
  • Union

• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Desire

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Drink
  • Bed

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Woman

• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Art
  • Past
  • Feeling

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

  

  Vanity
  • Over
  • Million
  • Offended

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Goal
  • Story
  • Helpful

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Crime
  • Movement

• I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • People
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege. That's not to say people don't make mistakes - we're all human. No one's perfect. I'm just going to be myself.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Reason

• I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Good
  • Friends