Marie Quotes

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

Conquer but never triumph.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.

My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.