Elisabeth Shue Quotes

What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.

Elisabeth Shue

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• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Work
  • Value
  • Independent

• I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Money
  • Free
  • Me

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
  • Never
  • Longest

• The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Without

• Habit is the nursery of errors.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Errors

• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Abuse
  • Conscience
  • Physical

• I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Couple

• Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine. The lord God almighty has done me proud with my features which I'm proud of and have no desire to alter them. I say ' let nature take its course '.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Pain
  • Decision

• I never wanted 'Toy Story 3' to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.

  

  Lee Unkrich

• There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Powerful

• I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Home

• Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • May
  • Age

• I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Time
  • Cool

• I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • Time
  • Live
  • Help

• I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

  

  Pierre Loti
  • Quality
  • Serious

• In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Control
  • United States
  • China

• My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Men

• I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Life
  • Worry

• At the base, it's about a man from America who doesn't quite fit in, with the comedy that entails. Everyone can relate to that, when things are lost in translation.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • America
  • Lost
  • Comedy

• What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • Sailing