La La Anthony Quotes

Nice day for a funeral.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.

Leadership is something I was born with.

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

I'm composing and writing music.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.