Elizabeth Banks Quotes

My acting gives me my self-worth.

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• 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

• I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Speed
  • Ball
  • Course

• 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

• If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Rest

• 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

• A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

  

  David D. Burns
  • Mistake
  • Imperfection

• The first step to take to wake up earlier is to have a nighttime routine that not only encourages you to fall asleep but also guarantees you'll sleep soundly each and every night.

  

  John Rampton
  • Up
  • Night
  • Fall

• Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Time
  • Speed
  • Buttons

• I think that the Argentine people have a special charisma, something different from the others, a mixture of languages, customs and cultures, which is reflected through generations. A country where there are great athletes, musicians, actors, businessmen, scientists, etc.

  

  Duki
  • Country
  • Cultures
  • Mixture

• Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Mind

• My acting gives me my self-worth.

  

  Elizabeth Banks