Linda Quotes

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.

After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

Why would I be embarrassed about being Canadian? I'm very proud. We're just the nicest people. Everyone likes us.

When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.

Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.

I don't think age is an ugly process. I think age is a beautiful thing. I love wrinkles. I don't like falling down. If I just wrinkle, I may not touch. If I fall down, I'll lift up.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Its difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

What we want is never simple.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

Going to a women's college made a big difference. It gave me the sense women could run things... and I just never thought that it made sense to give that up.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

Make an obstacle an opportunity.

When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.

We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.