Elizabeth Banks Quotes

I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

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• Working with special needs children is hard.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Children
  • Working
  • Special

• I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Stop

• Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Three

• To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • School
  • High
  • Thought

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Writing
  • Confidence

• African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Family
  • Problem
  • Racism

• But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Muse

• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Up
  • Obstacles
  • Walk

• Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Aid

• As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • America
  • Feel

• It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • May
  • Space
  • Brain

• I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Giving
  • Trust
  • Woman

• Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Company

• A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Animal

• As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • God
  • Guy

• Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom, whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

  

  John Adams
  • Different
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg-that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Good
  • Death
  • Fall

• In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • Colleagues
  • Altruism

• The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Universe

• We got together, and Bruce Willis was just a sweet animal, a sweetheart. I tell you, right down to the core he's just a real professional, a real gentleman, and I must say I'm so very happy for him that he's got a heck of a good film.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Happy
  • Animal
  • Professional

• I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Done

• The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Political
  • Safety

• I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

  

  Elizabeth Banks