J. F. Stone Quotes

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So I am the fastest cook in the world.

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.

I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.

I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate.

When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.

I like being a woman, not a girl.

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

Every time I exercise, I do something different based on which areas need to get in motion.

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fridge and that somebody's going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.

The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'

It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes.

I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.

I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing.

I know I am known for flesh-flashing, but I am an actress, too.

A lot of actresses will just go, "I'm 35." And I thought, " I'm not doing that." I like being 40.

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.

Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.

Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.

Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.