Lisa Edelstein Quotes

After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years and excitement of the new opportunities in acting and producing that lie ahead.

Lisa Edelstein

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• Opportunities
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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Stuff

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Think

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • She
  • Character
  • You

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Sister

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Moving
  • New
  • Direction

• I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • True
  • Lost

• I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Funny

• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• I'm asked that a lot: 'James, is there really a continuing spiritual renaissance occurring on this planet? Look at all the conflict, look at the wars.' And I believe, yes, we're still moving toward a deeper spirituality. It's personal. It's grassroots. It's everybody trying to get their own connection made, and from there it grows out.

  

  James Redfield
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Moving

• Which is the funniest language? It's French, isn't it?

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen

• Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Reading
  • Incomplete
  • Incompetent

• In the crush men used the women to play silent games with themselves. One stared ironically at a dark-haired girl to see if she would lower her gaze. One, with his eyes, caught a bit of lace between two buttons of a blouse, or harpooned a strap. Others passed the time looking out the window into cars for a glimpse of an uncovered leg, the play of muscles as a foot pushed break or clutch, a hand absentmindedly scratching the inside of a thigh.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Eyes
  • Games
  • Crush

• I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Perfect
  • Day

• After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years and excitement of the new opportunities in acting and producing that lie ahead.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Character
  • Moving
  • Leaving