- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actor's life is very long.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
- Tears
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
- Outfit
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'A Long Way Down' was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He's a really nice man.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020