Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
-
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
-
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
-
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
-
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
-
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
-
In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
-
A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
-
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
-
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
-
I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
-
We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
-
The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
-
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
-
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
-
When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
-
I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
-
Never put a sock in a toaster.
-
Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.
-
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. (22 August 1944)
