Way Quotes - Page 549

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.

There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

I have a blessed life in so many ways.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.

With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on 'Jeopardy!' and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.