Grace. Quotes

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side

When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

I'm a John Denver freak, and I don't give a sh*t that he looks like a f***ing turkey.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don’t want to know the time when I’ll have to come to the studio even earlier.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.