Lizzy Caplan Quotes

I've loved being the sarcastic chick, but I didn't want to be her forever.

Lizzy Caplan

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• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Live
  • Universe

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Woman
  • Wonder
  • Smart

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Round

• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Working

• Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • She
  • Proud

• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Art
  • Envy
  • Blessings

• I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Believe
  • Place

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.

  

  B. B. King
  • God
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Think
  • Support
  • Examination

• I cannot get over the strange conflict between my estimation of their ideas the artists of Italian Futurism most of which I find brilliant and fruitful, and my view of the their pictures he saw on the Walden exhibition in Berlin, Spring 2012, which strike me as, without a doubt, utterly mediocre.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Doubt
  • Spring
  • Italian

• If you are going to make something forever, you should be yourself.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Forever
  • Should
  • Ifs

• The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Training
  • Animal

• I've loved being the sarcastic chick, but I didn't want to be her forever.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Forever
  • Sarcastic