R. Rose Quotes

I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.

I didn't really want to be a celebrity. It just kind of happened to me.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.

That's my takeaway from 'Scream' - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a certain position and really hope you're not wearing something super fancy.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.

Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress.

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

Nobody acts purely selfishly.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

If knowledge is not democratized, power can never be.

I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all.

Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

I think emotional health is a big contributor to physical health.

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.