Lizzy Caplan Quotes
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
-
When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
-
I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
-
I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
-
I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
-
The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
-
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
-
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
-
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
-
Kenzo were celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they did this big, huge show in Paris and invited back all the models who'd walked for them in the 30-year era. How I found myself in the mix, I'll never know.
-
When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.
-
Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
-
While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
-
There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
-
We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!
-
A hatred of infidels is arguably the central message of the Koran.
-
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
-
Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome.
-
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
-
All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.
-
When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written.
-
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.
