Elizabeth Banks Quotes
I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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I want to win football games.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel's 'Messiah' to 'White Christmas,' to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.'
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Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
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The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
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The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.
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We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.
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I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.
