C.S. O'Kelly Quotes

I can kick your head off, but I can't, like, play a stupid little video game.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.

My children are my whole life.

As long as my husband's looking at me, that's all I care about!

Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

You should never poison a witch.

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

Most movie stars don't change their look at all.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!

I don't want to get pigeonholed, and I want to try my hand at anything that excites me. I'm not just a Disney writer.

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.