- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being pampered is great, but sometimes I like to do those things myself because it's a little therapeutic and gives me some downtime for myself - and I need that.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020