Carol Kane Quotes

I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.

Carol Kane

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• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Different
  • Family
  • Friends

• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Mind
  • Easy
  • Something

• Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • New

• My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Know
  • Down
  • Gravity

• You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Important
  • Movie

• What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Hate
  • City

• I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Today
  • Golf

• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Potential

• The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Children
  • Job
  • Remember

• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Love
  • Pretty

• Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Actors
  • Students
  • Share

• To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Soul
  • Reality
  • Sunset

• It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

  

  George Eliot
  • True
  • Measured
  • Intellectual Power

• I want all my friends, family and fans to know that I am in good spirits and I will be fine.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Writing

• I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.

  

  Anne Stuart
  • Want
  • Trust
  • Devotion

• I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.

  

  Carol Kane