Beth Quotes

The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.

When I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

I'm like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I'm strong, mature, and oh so delicious.

A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.

I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It's been an amazing learning curve and experience.

Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

Not everyone wants to be sexy everyday, wearing tight dresses and spanx.

I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!

There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how much you might hate the character, it makes you understand it.

Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.

If you just think Donnie Darkos a weird movie, you don't want to think. You don't want to feel your feelings. So yeah, I do want to shake 'em up.

We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

I love writing for the screen.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

A crushing hurt comes to our heart and the sympathizing, scarred hand of Christ presses the wound; and just for a moment,the pain seems to intensify,...bu t finally the bleeding stops.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise