JJ FIELD Quotes

Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.

The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me.

Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

Give the lady what she wants!

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

The more information you have, the better you're able to have success.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

The union of the states is indissoluble; the country is undivided and indivisible forever.

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

I think the fashion industry, as a result of globalization, has undergone a uniformity. I'm not saying that's good or that's bad but that is my observation.

I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.

You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

Change is never easy.