C. G. D. Roberts Quotes

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

There's no point doing anything half arsed or if you don't fully believe in it. It will always show otherwise and you'll get found out.

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

I think most video game movies have a problem, because they do try and have one foot in one door and another foot in a completely door.

The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.

The jobs don't get married. The people get married.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

I prefer to act with friends. I mean you start off as strangers always with someone, but to really find a relationship that you enjoy personally and creatively, it's fantastic.

I certainly take work as a joyous responsibility.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

Rainy day weddings create opportunities for really unique photos!

Old men make wars that young men may die.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

Fashion brings out what you are inside. A lot of people think it's got to be blue jeans, a Black coat, three inch heels. But it doesn't have to be like that. I enjoy just going for it

My top tip is to go for makeup that suits you, not what you want to look like.

We love getting dressed up - and this is a great excuse for a party.

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.