Break Quotes

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Edith Wharton
- Substance
- Misfortune
- Her
The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

Scott Turow
- School
- Career
- Literary

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Kevin Spacey
I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Lou Gehrig
- Live
- May
- Might
I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

Natalie Dormer
- Experience
- Me
- Memories
"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

Sarah Dessen
- Hurt
- Imagine
- Changed
M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

Laraine Day
- Roles
- Pictures
- Leading
I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

Vijay Sethupathi
- Actor
- Away
- Stranger