E.K. Blair Quotes

I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

If you know me, I don't live in this dismal world. I mean, I like to have fun. My friends are comedians.

I like having little kids look at me. It's fun. They make these little faces.

I work more than people realize. It doesn't mean you always see the project. Look at how many stations we have. I did a couple films in Australia. I like the movies.

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.

Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!

Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

The common damn'd shun their society.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

A Dirty Shame was a crazy movie. I don't understand that movie at all. I don't get it, but I'd work with John Waters again in a heartbeat. He's just a delight.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I'm a terrible dancer. Terrible. Just the pits. And I had to do these cheerleading things and it was just cringe-worthy. I mean, I'm so bad, so that was painful.

I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, Thats enough guys?

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.

Dark Horse was my second time working with Todd Solondz. I love him truly, very much. And I don't think he'd ever worked with an actor a second time. It was groundbreaking.

I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

I was a fan of Charlie Sheen - he's an incredibly likable, affable guy - well, until he doesn't like you.

It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I played teen roles until high definition came out.