Amy Adams Quotes

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Said

• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • She
  • Body

• Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
  • Budget

• One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Country
  • Yes

• Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I just have the stylist on set trim it for me. I don't dye my hair. When I was a teenager, I dyed my hair five colors at one time. It was all different shades of red going from more orange to more purple. I thought I looked so cool.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Yourself
  • Potential
  • Surgeon

• I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friend
  • United States

• I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Find
  • Quiet

• It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Love
  • Belief

• I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

  

  Hal Price
  • Myself
  • Theatre
  • Looking

• My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Party
  • Day
  • Birthday

• I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Change

• 'How about,' she said, 'that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • She

• We want to get another one.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Want
  • Get
  • Another

• Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Perfect
  • Films
  • Video Games

• Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Live
  • Powerful
  • Forever

• There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Life
  • Up

• You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • People
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

  

  Amy Adams