Elizabeth Banks Quotes

My acting gives me my self-worth.

Elizabeth Banks

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • Voice
  • Saying

• I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Grow

• I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Business
  • Age
  • College

• I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Mom
  • Working
  • Learned

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

  

  Larry Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Mean

• I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Singing
  • Learned
  • Records

• You always want your films to go as far as they can.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Want
  • You
  • Always

• Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • High
  • Running

• My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Dad
  • Cowboy
  • Forced

• And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• My group of friends, we sort of go at each other pretty hard sometimes. And it's half performance, half truth that you can say cutting things to your friends that might be a little true, but as long as you package it in a joke, it becomes a little more palatable.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Friends

• I would love to continue to model. It just depends on what opportunities I get, of course, I want to always stay true to who I am and make sure in everything I do God is getting the glory. If modeling is one of those things that keeps presenting itself to me, I would love to do it and continue to get more involved.

  

  Willie Robertson
  • God
  • True
  • Glory

• The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Truth
  • History
  • Faith

• I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• My acting gives me my self-worth.

  

  Elizabeth Banks