- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still feel like there are a lot of things in me that people haven't seen. My soul hasn't been bared yet.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once up for a part, and the male star was also producing the movie. They were talking about meeting with him or having an audition with him, and then we get the message, 'He wants to have dinner with you.' I said, 'Is that the audition, or is it that he just wants to have dinner with me?'
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020