Allison Janney Quotes

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

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• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Life
  • Run
  • Wait

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • American
  • Leadership
  • Move

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Quality
  • Growth
  • Management

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Film
  • Process
  • Watching

• I've always been a dreamer.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Always
  • Been
  • Dreamer

• Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Hard
  • Being
  • Coach

• Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

  

  William Adams The Black Eyed Peas
  • Learned
  • Grace
  • Geometry

• When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

  

  Michael Huffington
  • God
  • Money
  • Moment

• People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • People
  • Life

• I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.

  

  Freema Agyeman
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Food

• I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

  

  Allison Janney
  • God
  • Home
  • Girl