C. Elizabeth Quotes

I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.

We'll never change everyone's minds. We're not supposed to.

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

Love is itself an expression of strength.

Love is the light that casts no shadow.

As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches.

Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true.

Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.

If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

At the beginning of a long-running play, everyone's nervous and paces around in a panic and reapplies lipstick. After a while, you'll get long-running card games or word games like Boggle.

It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

It's very tough when two creative people are together.

If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.