Quotes by Olympia Dukakis - Page 1

Winning is everything in Hollywood.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Hollywood
Winning
Winning Is Everything
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What you don't know about women is alot.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
City Of Angels
Knows
Moonstruck
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Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Magnolias
Nice
Wells
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Catholic
Fall
Feminist
Husband
Vengeance
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Being A Woman
Thinking
Way
Women Way Find
Socialized
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Competition
Connections
Passion
Compete
Connection
Thankfully
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I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
People
Thinking
Way
Few People
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Affected
Altered
Being Me
Despair
Important
Me Important Sometimes
Claim
Me Sometimes Important
Meaningfully
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Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Heart
Passion
People
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Bed
Every Night
Mary
Mother
Prayer
Sleep
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Androgynous
Easier
Energy
Female
Thinking
Pray
Presence
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Married
Real
Regard
Sex
Years
Partner
Real Friend
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I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Be Careful
Careful
Knowing
Richness
Spiritual
Spiritual Life
Thinking
Label
Prerequisite
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Evolve
Honest
Real
Status Quo
Trying
Willing
Be Happy
Eager
Included
Quo
Status
To Be Honest
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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Miracle
Would Be
Writing
Evolving
Spiritually
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Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Daughter
Altered
Burned
Dna
Mother
Oil
Silencing
Thousand
Thousand Years
Daughters
Imprinted
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So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Fate
Play
Seeking
Skills
Touch
Damaged
Transform
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spiritual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Mountain
Skills
Trying
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Mountain
Skills
Somewhat
Included
Prevail
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I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Accepted
Being Different
Being Yourself
Believe
Country
Groups
Struggling
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Baptism
Baptized
Believe
Children
Church
Mother
Original Sin
Sin
Absolutely
Original
Carry
Refused
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
Age
Drama
Example
Ongoing
Our Lives
Sexuality
Youth
Dramas
For Example
To Be Honest
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