C. Elizabeth Quotes

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

When I dream, I am ageless.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

Funny women are honest women.

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

Diversity is good. We need each other's ideas.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

Look for a way to lift someone up. If that's all you do, it's enough.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

Something needn't be large to be good.

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.