Linda Quotes

I love everything about fashion. I even love the fittings and watching it evolve from a pattern to a muslin to the final product.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

Every minute was more exciting than the next.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

The trouble with plastic surgery is that after 10 years, gravity wins out and you have to have another one in a year or so.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

I raced through Killer Keepsakes and really loved it smart and interesting and entertaining.

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

It is not about being thin. It is about staying healthy and fit. I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do. I want to be walking around at 90.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

I feel better if I exercise and eat healthily.

I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.

The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.

It was my dream Not its failure that damaged me

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin

The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.