Lisa Lampanelli Quotes
I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
-
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
-
I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
-
I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
-
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
-
If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
-
Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
-
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
-
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
-
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
-
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
-
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
-
I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
-
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
-
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
-
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
-
I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
-
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
-
When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
-
I hang out with a lot of the people I did when I was in high school, when I was in college, and I have a strong unit of people around me, whether it be friends or family, and if my head gets too big, they will definitely check me immediately.
-
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
-
Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
-
I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.
-
I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'
