Andrea Martin Quotes

I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.

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• The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.

  

  Jacinda Barrett
  • Character
  • Think
  • Kind

• My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Brothers
  • Park
  • Bench

• We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Better
  • Laws
  • Legal

• For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Famous

• There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Country
  • Other
  • Carries

• You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• I love bayou life.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Life
  • Love
  • I Love

• What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • Helping
  • Heritage

• I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Pretty
  • Look
  • Young

• Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Art
  • Worship
  • Him

• What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Playing
  • Writer
  • Soccer

• If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Problem

• The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • American
  • Freedom

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Jump

• I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Music
  • iPod

• Anytime you are with a horse, no matter if you are a daily rider or one who just gets a chance to ride to the mailbox, you are interacting with your horse. It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity. Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Chance
  • Horse
  • Rider

• From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

  

  Leon Askin
  • Life
  • Today

• I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

  

  Anna Friel

• I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.

  

  Andrea Martin