Allison Janney Quotes

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.

Allison Janney

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• My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Acting

• They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • War
  • Like

• My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Talent

• I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Never

• Roma come before everything else.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Everything
  • Come
  • Before

• My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Being
  • Boat
  • Rocking

• I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Respect

• A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Great
  • More
  • Mission

• A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • American
  • Literature
  • Doing

• I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Think

• Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Food
  • Need

• I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Keep

• I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Small
  • Action
  • Step

• I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Enjoy
  • Acting
  • Aspect

• It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Live

• I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Money
  • You
  • Know

• The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.

  

  James Badge Dale
  • Opportunity
  • Beginning
  • Regret

• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • People
  • Player
  • Study

• The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • War
  • Creativity

• You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Family
  • Job

• This action also will meet a fundamental objective of the partners -- to share ownership benefits and responsibilities more broadly among all of the firm's employees.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Action
  • Partners
  • Employees

• I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.

  

  Allison Janney