Elizabeth Debicki Quotes

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

Elizabeth Debicki

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• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Myself

• It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Marketing

• When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Up
  • Being
  • Size

• I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Done
  • Game
  • Control

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Up
  • Go
  • Weak

• After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Space
  • Safety

• I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Free

• Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• We do not want to go to the U.K. and take something from them. We do not want to be parasites. We want to work there, and I think that Hungarians are working well.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Work
  • Think
  • Want

• I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Work
  • Art
  • Guilty

• I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Political
  • Trump

• But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?

  

  Alejandra Pizarnik
  • Why
  • She
  • Death

• The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Home
  • Past
  • Memories

• Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
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