Lori Petty Quotes
I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
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I'm hands-on with everything. I approve the designs of everything we do because that's my brand that people are buying. I want it to look good.
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If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
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I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.
