Jo Bell Quotes

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.

The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment.

Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if you're singing properly, depending on who you're mimicking.

I'm inspired by having fun; I'm inspired by people.

I think I would rather want to create something new, but I really did enjoy doing that show. It was a really fun show to do.

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. Thats my nature.

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.

1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.

No one has the last word other than God.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

The first word about you is that you received this life.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.