Ellis Quotes

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn't easy.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something - your dreams, your image of the future.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

I've been a vegetarian for a while now and I try to give my body plenty of what it craves.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Things don't always happen the way we planned. As we learn to trust in God's plan, we will see that He has our best interests at heart.

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

If I'm going to show cleavage or chest then I don't show leg. I show one thing. If I show leg then everything else is covered up.

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.