Andrea Martin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I believed I was 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.
-
My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
-
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.
-
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
-
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
-
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
-
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.
-
I love bayou life.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
-
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
-
Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.
-
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
-
Triteness of content has not necessarily hurt ideologies in the past. There are very few original or profound ideologies on the political scene.
-
When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this area, they will search not only for me, but for any Palestinian to speak with him. And they will say, "We have five million Arabs in the United States. We can't avoid them."
-
I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.
