Elisabeth Moss Quotes

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

Elisabeth Moss

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• In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Long
  • American
  • Beach

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Why

• My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Dad
  • Two
  • Ever

• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • True
  • Father

• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Change

• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rice

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Think
  • Doing

• You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • You
  • Times
  • Become

• I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Family
  • American
  • Society

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Truth
  • Deep
  • Down

• A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

  

  Robert James Ritchi

• When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

  

  Jeremy Rifkin

• It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

  

  Dwight Schultz
  • People
  • Community

• You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • World
  • Job
  • Passion

• Now that my daughter is 9 and my son is 5, I'm starting to enjoy tennis more. I've been asked to play in the over 35s, and I may do that.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Play
  • Daughter
  • Tennis

• I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Star
  • Famous
  • Daughter