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

• Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Way
  • You
  • King

• 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

• I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
  • Book

• I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Mankind
  • Theories
  • Einstein

• I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school.

  

  James Marsters
  • School
  • High

• It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

  

  Susan Vreeland
  • Moments
  • Wonder
  • Strange

• Anything that you as an actor can change about yourself for a part is helpful.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Actors
  • Helpful

• 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