Allison Janney Quotes

I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

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• There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Thing

• There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Difficult

• I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Shoes
  • Sexy

• From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Job
  • Age
  • Door

• I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Daughter

• When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Think
  • Want

• You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • You
  • Matter

• I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

  

  Halsey
  • World
  • Think
  • Dating

• A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Dad

• For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Success
  • Man
  • Woman

• Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Streets
  • Cross
  • Neurotic

• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Good
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • God
  • Power
  • Nature

• Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Political

• 'SI' came to me and said, 'We want you to do a story on Russell as the greatest team player,' which I certainly agreed with.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Team
  • Player

• During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.

  

  Blake Griffin

• There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

  

  James Bay
  • Dad
  • Uncle

• There's no such thing as an ugly goal. Ugly is to not score one.

  

  Dadá Maravilha
  • Goal
  • Ugly
  • Score

• In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Philosophical
  • Surfing

• I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

  

  Allison Janney