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I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.
I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.
Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.
There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.
In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.
In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.
I wasn't at all trying to be skinny, My Mom is Jayne Mansfield, I'm allowed to have curves.
I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.
I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.
I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
'Last Man On Earth' is just one of the most original projects I've ever been involved with.
I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not
I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.
I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.
And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.
I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.
I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
I have a husband, and babysitters; I find it hard. I find it amazing how single moms do it.
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died
I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.
At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.
I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
Lovin this Ghost Ghirls! It was great to get to play a madame not just a boring prostitute.
I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.
I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke.
I'd never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.
Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.
I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself. And I'm very proud to say that.
The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.
It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.