Wendi McLendon-Covey Quotes

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
  • Trigger

• When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Cat
  • Judging
  • Performance

• I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Live

• The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Desire

• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Capacity

• Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

  

  Debra Messing
  • Opinion
  • Teacher

• Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • Dream

• I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Life
  • Love
  • Sing

• Across all religions in the United States, people 18-30 are more spiritual than before, but they don't like organized religion. What sets Birthright apart is that no one's hitting on you to be Jewish in any particular way, and you can define Jewish any way you want.

  

  Charles Bronfman
  • People
  • Spiritual

• Most people think that being in a band is like, "Woah", just touring around and having fun and cocktails...

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • People
  • Think
  • Coctails

• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Real