Jo Graham Quotes

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

I'm nice, and I show up on time.

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on

If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.

First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?

The only time I took Ecstacy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

I'm curious about life, period.

Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

One forgets so quickly one's own youth.

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

I think the word is adult!